Ciloglu, Arif
Ellis, Vincenzo A.
Bernotienė, Rasa
Valkiūnas, Gediminas
Bensch, Staffan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Swedish Research Council (621-2013-4839)
Research Council of Lithuania (S-MIP-17-27)
Carl Tryggers Foundation
Article History
Received: 25 May 2018
Accepted: 12 November 2018
First Online: 7 December 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: Permission for taking blood samples from birds in Sweden was approved by the Malmö/Lund Committee for Animal Experiment Ethics (M45-14). Procedures with birds in Lithuania were performed by licensed researchers and were approved by the Ethical Commission of the Baltic Laboratory Animal Science Association, Lithuania; Lithuanian State Food and Veterinary Office and Environmental Protection Agency, Vilnius.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.