Prolonged survival of skin allografts in mallards

✍ Scribed by Mueller, Nancy S.

• Book ID: 102336215
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1980
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 423 KB
• Volume: 212
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0022-104X
• DOI: 10.1002/jez.1402120317

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Skin allografts were exchanged between 25 male and 25 female mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) within 2 days after hatching. Of the 42 ducks that survived and whose grafts healed, 14% rejected rapidly before the grafts became feathered, 20% rejected between 3–6 weeks, and one duck rejected when he was 10 weeks old. Twenty‐seven of the 42 ducks (64%) retained their grafts for at least 5 months. The result demonstrate that, in mallards, neither inbreeding nor any treatment of the host is necessary for prolonged survival of skin allografts made shortly after hatching.