Immunological Change in a Parasite-Impoverished Environment: Divergent Signals from Four Island Taxa
Jon S. Beadell, Colm Atkins, Erin Cashion et al. · 2007
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Jon Beadell, Colm Atkins, Erin Cashion and colleagues compared immune traits in four island bird groups, reporting in PLOS ONE in 2007. Hawaii's native birds have been hit hard by bird malaria and pox brought in by people. With fewer parasites around and smaller gene pools, island birds might share a changed immune profile.
The team measured immune signals across four island taxa and found they do not all point the same way. That divergence is itself the lesson: a parasite poor home does not reshape every species alike. For conservation, the work warns against treating island birds as one uniform case.
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| CREATOR | Jon S. Beadell, Colm Atkins, Erin Cashion et al. |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2007 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 60 KB |
| LICENSE | Creative Commons CC0 License |
| RIGHTS | CC0 |
| SOURCE | PLOS ONE |
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000896