Updates are available Correction dated 2021-02-22

Article History

Received: 11 January 2021

Accepted: 31 January 2021

First Online: 12 February 2021

Change Date: 22 February 2021

Change Type: Correction

Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:

Change Details: https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12860-021-00351-z

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: All animal-handling protocols were carried out in accordance with the European Communities Council Directives concerning the practice for the care and use of animals for Scientific Purposes and the French Ministry on Animal experimentation, and were performed under the supervision of authorized scientists (authorization #7323, delivered by the French ministry of Education and Research). Birds were kept in the experimental unit PEAT 1295 of INRA, which has permission to rear birds and to perform euthanasia of experimental animals (decree N° B37–175-1 of August 28th 2012 delivered by the “Préfécture d’Indre et Loire” following inspection by the Direction of Veterinary Services). Our experimental protocol was approved by the ethical committee “Comité d’éthique de Val de Loire, officially registered under number 19 of the French National Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation” under agreement number #16099–015902. A limited number of animals were euthanized unconscious with 1 ml of pentobarbital in order to collect biological tissue samples. The remaining animals were kept in the farm in accordance with the regulations.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare not having competing interest.