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Immunoglobulin detection in wild birds: effectiveness of three secondary anti‐avian IgY antibodies in direct ELISAs in 41 avian species

Overview of attention for article published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution, May 2016
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Title
Immunoglobulin detection in wild birds: effectiveness of three secondary anti‐avian IgY antibodies in direct ELISAs in 41 avian species
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Methods in Ecology and Evolution, May 2016
DOI 10.1111/2041-210x.12583
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Carol A. Fassbinder‐Orth, Travis E. Wilcoxen, Tiffany Tran, Raoul K. Boughton, Jeanne M. Fair, Erik K. Hofmeister, Jennifer L. Grindstaff, Jen C. Owen

Abstract

Immunological reagents for wild, non-model species are limited or often non-existent for many species.In this study, we compare the reactivity of a new anti-passerine IgY secondary antibody with existing secondary antibodies developed for use with birds. Samples from 41 species from the following six avian orders were analysed: Anseriformes (1 family, 1 species), Columbiformes (1 family, 2 species), Galliformes (1 family, 1 species), Passeriformes (16 families, 34 species), Piciformes (1 family, 2 species) and Suliformes (1 family, 1 species). Direct ELISAs were performed to detect total IgY using goat anti-passerine IgY, goat anti-chicken IgY or goat anti-bird IgY secondary antibodies.The anti-passerine antibody exhibited significantly higher IgY reactivity compared to the anti-chicken and/or anti-bird antibodies in 80% of the passerine families tested. Birds in the order Piciformes (woodpeckers) and order Suliformes (cormorants) were poorly detected by all three secondary antibodies. A comparison of serum and plasma IgY levels was made within the same individuals for two passerine species (house finch and white-crowned sparrow), and serum exhibited significantly more IgY than the plasma for all three secondary antibodies. This result indicates that serum may be preferred to plasma when measuring total antibody levels in blood.This study indicates that the anti-passerine IgY secondary antibody can effectively be used in immunological assays to detect passerine IgY for species in most passerine families and is preferred over anti-chicken and anti-bird secondary antibodies for the majority of passerine species. This anti-passerine antibody will allow for more accurate detection and quantification of IgY in more wild bird species than was possible with previously available secondary antibodies.

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Unknown 51 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 18%
Researcher 7 14%
Student > Master 7 14%
Professor > Associate Professor 6 12%
Student > Bachelor 5 10%
Other 9 18%
Unknown 8 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 35%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine 5 10%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 5 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 4 8%
Environmental Science 3 6%
Other 4 8%
Unknown 12 24%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 October 2016.
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#7,148,499
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#1,983
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#107,127
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Outputs of similar age from Methods in Ecology and Evolution
#44
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