ArticlePloS one2007
Infectious offspring: how birds acquire and transmit an avian polyomavirus in the wild.
Article in PloS one, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.
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- The relationship between defecation and feeding in nestling birds: observational and experimental evidence.Frontiers in zoology · 2015Article
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- Livestock drugs and disease: the fatal combination behind breeding failure in endangered bearded vultures.PloS one · 2010Article
Corrections and comments
- Retraction · 2013-05-13Concerns/Issues about Data · Investigation by Company/Institution · Investigation by Third Party · Unreliable Data · Unreliable Results and/or Conclusions ·
- Retracted
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4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Detailed patterns of primary virus acquisition and subsequent dispersal in wild vertebrate populations are virtually absent. We show that nestlings of a songbird acquire polyomavirus infections from larval blowflies, common nest ectoparasites of cavity-nesting birds, while breeding adults acquire and renew the same viral infections via cloacal shedding from their offspring. Infections by these DNA viruses, known potential pathogens producing disease in some bird species, therefore follow an 'upwards vertical' route of an environmental nature mimicking horizontal transmission within families, as evidenced by patterns of viral infection in adults and young of experimental, cross-fostered offspring. This previously undescribed route of viral transmission from ectoparasites to offspring to parent hosts may be a common mechanism of virus dispersal in many taxa that display parental care.
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