Rapid loss of maternal immunity and increase in environmentally mediated antibody generation in urban gulls

Abstract Monitoring pathogen circulation in wildlife sentinel populations can help to understand and predict the spread of disease at the wildlife-livestock-human interface. Immobile young provide a useful target population for disease surveillance, since they can be easily captured for sampling and...

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Main Authors: Juliet S. Lamb, Jérémy Tornos, Mathilde Lejeune, Thierry Boulinier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54796-1