期刊
JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY
卷 38, 期 8, 页码 520-523出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtherbio.2013.09.001
关键词
Incubation temperature; Peking ducklings; Immune organ; Globulin; IFN-gamma
资金
- Chinese Agriculture Research Service [CARS-43-6]
- Major Project of Sichuan Education Department [13ZA0252]
- Breeding of Multiple Crossbreeding System in waterfowl [2011NZ0099-8]
Avian embryos are easily influenced by their environment during incubation. Previous studies have demonstrated that incubation temperature changes could influence muscle development and body weight, which subsequently determine the adult phenotype. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the development of immune organs in ducklings could be influenced by thermal manipulation during the middle stage of incubation. To evaluate this hypothesis, a control group was incubated under a normal temperature from Ell to E24, while the incubation temperature of the experimental group was increased by 1 C. Our results indicated that slight changes in the incubation temperature significantly repressed the bursa of Fabricius index of the duck embryo on E25 (F1, 58=122.51, P <0.0001) and significantly repressed the spleen index of neonatal ducklings (F1, 58=74.38, P <0.0001). At 0 day posthatching (dph) and 14 dph, ducklings hatched from eggs incubated under the higher temperature had a lower percentage of globulin than the control group (F1, 10=19.97, P=0.0111; Fl, 10=9.8, P=0.0352). The IFN-y concentration of ducklings at 14 dph displayed the same trend (Fl, 10=284.49, P < 0.0001). These results suggested that thermal manipulation during the middle stage of incubation had a repressive effect on the development of immune organs and reduced the concentrations of serum globulin and IFN-y. These results demonstrated that the subtle alteration of incubation temperature may weaken ducklings' immunity. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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