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As part of an ecological study of the red billed quelea, Quelea quelea, undertaken in Tanzania and Kenya between 1969 and 1972, the size and colour of the thymus glands in over 5,000 birds were recorded and subsequently correlated with the physiological state of the birds, such as the state and degree of moult and breeding condition. More than 200 lobes from these thymus glands were excised and examined by routine histological methods using impression smears, paraffin sections and araldite embedded sections prepared for light and electron microscopy. This work, carried out in collaboration with other workers, will be reported in full elsewhere and is briefly summarised here.
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KENDALL, M., WARD, P. Erythropoiesis in an avian thymus. Nature 249, 366–367 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249366a0
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