Additional file 1: Hieronymus flight feather Table S7.xls : Excel spreadsheet of taxa included in the study.
Nine genes involved in tube development (WNT5A, LMO4, LIPA, SHH, EDNRA, RARB, GJA5, CRH, GLI1) were increased in expression in the early-growth flight feather (Table 2).
Many genes involved in extracellular region and cell adhesion were up-regulated significantly in the middle-grow flight feather (Table 2).
Several genes involved in tissue morphogenesis (PRKAR1A, LMO4, TP63, TWSG1, JAG1, FGFR2, ACVR1, CA2) and in the regulation of developmental process (SMAD5, JAG1, FGFR2, HIF1A, ACVR1, WNT7B) were upregulated in distal flight feather (Table 2).
Nine genes involved in skeletal system development (MGP, GLI1, WWOX, IGFBP5, GJA5, SHH, SOX14, SMAD1, CBFB) were increased in expression in the early-grow (distal) flight feather (Table 2).
Genes involved in skeletal system development, tube development, melanin biosynthetic process, regulation of RNA metabolic process, drug metabolism, respiratory tube development, and lytic vacuole were expressed significantly higher in early-grow flight feather (Table 2).
These differences allowed us to assign any individual to a relatively restricted breeding area using isotopic signature (100% correct classification) and, to a lesser extent, elemental composition (72.0% correct classification) of primary feathers (Table 1).
We manipulated levels of testosterone (T) (by implantation; hormonal treatment or HTREAT) and parasites (through controlled infection; parasite treatment or PTREAT), and measured level of stress as evaluated by corticosterone (CORT) in feathers (Table 1).
Compared to the other groups, Hispanic/Spanish children had fewer allergies to all aeroallergens except feathers (Table 4).
The feather bacterial community structure significantly differed between the treatments (df = 53; R = 0.11; p = 0.001), with TSB treatment significantly affecting bacterial community structure on feathers (Table 2).
The carcass of 1 of the affected partridges was also subjected to necroscopic analysis of different tissues, including heart, intestine, lung, liver, kidney, brain, and feathers (Table).
