TY  - STD
AU  - Gamble, A.
PY  - 2018//
TI  - Diseases threatening polar seabirds: from immune-ecology to conservation
BT  - Polar 2018, 19-23 June 2018, Davos, Switzerland
N2  - Infectious Diseases Are A Relatively Neglected But Potentially Important Threat To Wild Populations, Especially In Polar Areas Where Global Changes May Facilitate The Introduction Of New Parasites. In Addition, The Life Histories Of Seabirds, Combining Long Lifespan And High Site Fidelity, Raises The Possibility That Their Immune System May Have Evolved Special Features To Protect Them Against Potential Recurrent Exposure To Parasites At The Breeding Site. This Is Notably The Case For Species Breeding In Dense Aggregations Which Can Be Subject To Recurrent Epizootics, As Observed In Arctic And Subantarctic Populations Of Seabirds Hit By Avian Cholera. In This Context, We Combined Observational And Experimental Data To Undertake Basic Immune-ecological Investigations That Led Us To Some Original Findings With Potential Implications For Conservation. Our Results, Obtained In Collaboration With Several Groups Of Biologists In Arctic And Subantarctic, Particularly Highlight The Dynamics Of Lyme Disease Borrelia In Arctic And Antarctic Seabird Colonies And Of Avian Cholera In An Albatross Colony. They Also Stress That The Persistence Of Maternally Inherited Immunity Varies Between Seabird Species, Being Especially Long In Procellariiforms. These Results Thus Open Some Promising Venue For The Use Of Vaccination In The Wild In Some Critical Situations.
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