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The effect of pre-laying maternal immunization on offspring growth and immunity differs across experimentally altered postnatal rearing conditions in a wild songbird

BACKGROUND: Prenatal antibody transfer is an immune-mediated maternal effect by which females can shape postnatal offspring resistance to pathogens and parasites. Maternal antibodies passed on to offspring provide primary protection to neonates against diverse pathogenic antigens, but they may also...

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Autores principales: Martyka, Rafał, Śliwińska, Ewa B., Martyka, Mirosław, Cichoń, Mariusz, Tryjanowski, Piotr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6006776/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29946341
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0272-y