No Compensatory Relationship between the Innate and Adaptive Immune System in Wild-Living European Badgers

Yung Wa Sin; Chris Newman; Hannah L. Dugdale; Christina Buesching; Maria-Elena Mannarelli; Geetha Annavi; Terry Burke; David W. Macdonald

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0163773

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No Compensatory Relationship between the Innate and Adaptive Immune System in Wild-Living European Badgers

Yung Wa Sin ,

* E-mail: yungwa.sin@gmail.com

Affiliations Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom, NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, United States of America
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Chris Newman,

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom
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Hannah L. Dugdale,

Affiliations Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, PO Box 11103, 9700 CC, Groningen, Netherlands, School of Biology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Christina Buesching,

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom
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Maria-Elena Mannarelli,

Affiliations NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom
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Geetha Annavi,

Affiliations Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, University of Putra Malaysia, UPM 43400, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
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Terry Burke,

Affiliation NERC Biomolecular Analysis Facility, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, United Kingdom
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David W. Macdonald

Affiliation Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Recanati-Kaplan Centre, Tubney House, Abingdon Road, Tubney, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 5QL, United Kingdom
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No Compensatory Relationship between the Innate and Adaptive Immune System in Wild-Living European Badgers

Yung Wa Sin,
Chris Newman,
Hannah L. Dugdale,
Christina Buesching,
Maria-Elena Mannarelli,
Geetha Annavi,
Terry Burke,
David W. Macdonald

Published: October 3, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0163773

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