Leucocyte Levels in Some Antarctic and Non-Antarctic Penguins

Verónica L. D'Amico; Marcelo Bertellotti; Julia I. Díaz; Néstor Coria; Virginia Vidal; Andrés Barbosa

doi:10.13157/arla.61.1.2014.145

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Verónica L. D'Amico,^1,* Marcelo Bertellotti,¹ Julia I. Díaz,² Néstor Coria,³ Virginia Vidal,^4,5 Andrés Barbosa⁶

¹1Centro Nacional Patagónico (CONICET), Bvrd. Brown 2915, 9120, Puerto Madryn, Chubut, Argentina.
²2Centro de Estudios Parasitológicos y de Vectores (CCT La Plata-CONICET-UNLP), Calle 2 No. 584, 1900
³3Instituto Antártico Argentino-Dirección Nacional del Antártico, Cerrito 1248, 1010 Buenos Aires, Ar
⁴4Dpto. Sanidad Animal, Facultad de Veterinaria, Universidad de Murcia, Campus de Espinardo, 30100 Mu
⁵5Unidad Asociada de Ecología e Inmunología Parasitaria, CSIC-Universidad de Murcia, Murcia, Spain.
⁶6Dpto. Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), C/ José Gutiérrez Abascal 2,

^*Corresponding author: damico@cenpat.edu.ar

Abstract

We studied leucocyte levels in several Antarctic and non-Antarctic penguins. A total of 107 blood samples of chinstrap Pygoscelis antarctica, gentoo P. papua and Adélie P. adeliae penguins at Isla 25 de Mayo/King George Island (South Shetland Islands, Antarctica) and Magellanic penguins Spheniscus magellanicus at Península Valdés (Chubut, Argentina), were collected and analysed during the 2009–2010 breeding season. We observed that chinstrap and Adélie penguins had lower total leucocyte counts than Magellanic and gentoo penguins. We provide some potential explanations for species differences in leucocyte levels.

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Verónica L. D'Amico, Marcelo Bertellotti, Julia I. Díaz, Néstor Coria, Virginia Vidal, and Andrés Barbosa "Leucocyte Levels in Some Antarctic and Non-Antarctic Penguins," Ardeola 61(1), 145-152, (1 June 2014). https://doi.org/10.13157/arla.61.1.2014.145

Received: 15 July 2013; Accepted: 10 March 2014; Published: 1 June 2014

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