Are maternal antibodies really that important? Patterns in the immunologic development of altricial passerine house sparrows (Passer domesticus).
Maternal antibodies are believed to play an integral role in protecting immunologically immature wild-passerines from environmental antigens.This study comprehensively examines the early development of the adaptive immune system in an altricial-developing wild here passerine species, the house sparrow (Passer domestics), by characterizing the half-