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Antibacterial and anatomical defenses in an oil contaminated, vulnerable seaduck

Oil spills have killed thousands of birds during the last 100 years, but nonlethal effects of oil spills on birds remain poorly studied. We measured phenotype characters in 819 eiders Somateria mollissima (279 whole birds and 540 wings) of which 13.6% were oiled. We tested the hypotheses that (a) th...

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Autores principales: Møller, Anders Pape, Laursen, Karsten, Izaguirre, Jorge, Marzal, Alfonso
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8462148/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34594517
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7996