Wild Florida mottled ducks demonstrate strong heterogeneity in their humoral innate immune response

• Andrea J. Ayala,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1941-3716

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• Matthew Cheng,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Hematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale Comprehensive Cancer Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Thomas A. Hellinger,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

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• K. Mark McBride,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fellsmere, Florida, United States of America, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, Game Species Section, Wildlife and Forestry Division, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Jonathan Webb,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fellsmere, Florida, United States of America

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• Andrew Fanning,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America

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• Paul Snyder,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Margherita Ferragamo,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

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• Samantha C. Garcia,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Nyah Sterner,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

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• Karyn L. Bischoff,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, Cornell University and New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

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• Salvador Almagro-Moreno,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America, National Center for Integrated Coastal Research, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, United States of America

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• C. Brandon Ogbunugafor

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: brandon.ogbunu@yale.edu

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Public Health Modeling Unit, Yale School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1581-8345

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