Conservation and immunology of wild seabirds: Vaccinating two birds with one shot
Thursday, December 18, 2014 - 15:00
in Biology & Nature
A group of researchers from the University of Barcelona (Spain), the CNRS in Montpellier (France) and Princeton University (USA) report in The American Naturalist that the vaccination of females of a long-lived seabird species, the Cory's shearwater, results in levels of antibodies that allow their transmission to their offspring for several years and could provide several weeks of protection after hatching to these offspring.