Fault bars and bacterial infection

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 819-823

  Jovani, Roger ^a   Montalvo, Tomás ^b   Sabaté, Sara ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b AGÈNCIA DE SALUT PÚBLICA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Feather; Physiology; Stress bars; Stress marks

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; BIRD; FEATHER; PARASITE; PHYSIOLOGY;

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CAMPYLOBACTER; CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI; COLUMBA; COLUMBA LIVIA;

EID: 84902540152     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-014-1054-8     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Bortolotti GR, Dawson RD, Murza GL (2002) Stress during feather development predicts fitness potential. J Anim Ecol 71: 333-342.
2. Bortolotti GR, Marchant T, Blas J, Cabezas S (2009) Tracking stress: localisation, deposition and stability of corticosterone in feathers. J Exp Biol 212: 1477-1482.
3. Bull SA, Thomas A, Humphrey T, Ellis-Iversen J, Cook AJ, Lovell R, Jorgensen F (2008) Flock health indicators and Campylobacter spp. in commercial housed broilers reared in Great Britain. Appl Environ Microbiol 74: 5408-5413.
4. Cogan TA, Thomas AO, Rees LE, Taylor AH, Jepson MA, Williams PH, Ketley J, Humphrey TJ (2007) Norepinephrine increases the pathogenic potential of Campylobacterjejuni. Gut 56: 1060-1065.
5. Freed LA, Cann RL, Goff ML, Kuntz WA, Bodner GR (2005) Increase in avian malaria at upper elevation in Hawaii. Condor 107: 753-764.
6. Freed LA, Medeiros MC, Bodner GR (2008) Explosive increase in ectoparasites in Hawaiian forest birds. J Parasitol 94: 1009-1021.
7. International Organization for Standardization (ISO) (2006) Norm ISO 10272-1: 2006. Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs--horizontal method for detection and enumeration of Campylobacter spp.: Part 1: detection method. ISO Secretariat, Geneva.
8. Jovani R, Blas J (2004) Adaptive allocation of stress-induced deformities on bird feathers. J Evol Biol 17: 294-301.
9. Jovani R, Tella JL (2004) Age-related environmental sensitivity and weather mediated nestling mortality in white storks Ciconia ciconia. Ecography 27: 611-618.
10. Jovani R, Diaz-Real J (2012) Fault bars timing and duration: the power of studying feather fault bars and growth bands together. J Avian Biol 43: 97-101.
11. Kapperud G, Rosef O (1983) Avian wildlife reservoir of Campylobacter fetus subsp jejuni, Yersinia spp., and Salmonella spp. in Norway. Appl Env Microbiol 45: 375-380.
12. King JR, Murphy ME (1984) Fault bars in the feathers of white-crowned sparrows: dietary deficiency or stress of captivity and handling? Auk 101: 168-169.
13. Møller AP (1989) Viability costs of male tail ornaments in a swallow. Nature 339: 132-135.
14. Møller AP, Kimball RT, Erritzoe J (1996) Sexual ornamentation, condition, and immune defence in the house sparrow Passer domesticus. Behav Ecol Sociobiol 39: 317-322.
15. Moore JE, Corcoran D, Dooley JSG, Fanning S, Lucey B, Matsuda M, McDowell DA, Megraud F, Millar BC, O'Mahony R, O'Riordan L, O'Rourke M, Rao JR, Rooney PJ, Sails A, Whyte P (2005) Campylobacter. Vet Res 36: 351-382.
16. Murphy ME, King JR, Lu J (1988) Malnutrition during the postnuptial molt of White-crowned sparrows: feather growth and quality. Can J Zool 66: 1403-1413.
17. Murphy ME, Miller BT, King JR (1989) A structural comparison of fault bars with feather defects known to be nutritional induced. Can J Zool 67: 1311-1317.
18. Negro JJ, Bildstein KL, Bird DM (1994) Effects of food deprivation and handling stress on fault-bar formation in nestling American kestrels. Ardea 82: 263-267.
19. Newell DG (2001) Animal models of C. jejuni colonization and disease and the lessons to be learned from similar Helicobacter pylori models. Symp Ser Soc Appl Microbiol 30: 57S-67S.
20. Pap PL, Barta Z, Tökölyi J, Vágási IC (2007) Increase of feather quality during moult: a possible implication of feather deformities in the evolution of partial moult in the great tit Parus major. J Avian Biol 38: 471-478.
21. Riddle O (1908) The genesis of fault-bars in feathers and the cause of alternation of light and dark fundamental bars. Biol Bull 14: 328-370.
22. Rohwer S, Ricklefs R, Rohwer V, Copple M (2009) Allometry of the duration of flight feather molt in birds. PLoS Biol 7(6): e1000132. doi: 10. 1371/journalpbio1000132.
23. Romano A, Rubolini D, Caprioli M, Boncoraglio G, Ambrosini R, Saino N (2011) Sex-related effects of an immune challenge on growth and begging behaviour of barn swallow nestlings. PLoS One 6: e22805.
24. Romero L, Strochlic D, Wingfield J (2005) Corticosterone inhibits feather growth: potential mechanism explaining seasonal down regulation of corticosterone during molt. Comp Biochem Physiol A Mol Integr Physiol 142: 65-73.
25. Sarasola JH, Jovani R (2006) Risk of feather damage explains fault bar occurrence in a migrant hawk, the Swainson's hawk Buteo swainsoni. J Avian Biol 37: 29-35.
26. Sebright JS (1826) Observations upon hawking. J. Harding, London.
27. Sodhi NS (2002) A comparison of bird communities of two fragmented and two continuous Southeast Asian rainforests. Biodiv Conserv 11: 1105-1119.
28. Sol D, Santos DM, García P, Cuadrado M (1998) Competition for food in urban pigeons: the cost of being juvenile. Condor 298: 304-1998.
29. Sol D, Santos DM, Cuadrado M (2000) Age-related site segregation in urban pigeons: experimental evidence of the competition hypothesis. Can J Zool 78: 144-149.
30. Uribe F, Senar JC, Colom L, Camerino M (1985) Morfometría de las palomas semidomésticas (Columba livia var.) de la ciudad de Barcelona. Misc Zool 9: 339-345.
31. Vágási CI, Pap PL, Vincze O, Benkö Z, Marton A, Barta Z (2012) Haste makes waste but condition matters: molt rate-feather quality trade-off in a sedentary songbird. PLoS One 7: e40651.
32. Velando A (2002) Experimental manipulation of maternal effort produces differential effects in sons and daughters: implications for adaptive sex ratios in the blue-footed booby. Behav Ecol 13: 443-449.
33. Waldenstrom J, Broman T, Carlsson I, Hasselquist D, Achterberg RP, Wagenaar JA, Olsen B (2002) Prevalence of C. jejuni, C. lari, and C. coli in different ecological guilds and taxa of migrating birds. Appl Environ Microbiol 68: 5911-5917.