Table 1. Body mass and blood metabolite profiles for the different experimental treatments with their corresponding sample size.

Body mass increase of house sparrow chicks from vaccination at four days of age to blood sampling at ten days of age, and body mass of house sparrow mothers according to the different treatments (C = Control, V = Vaccinated). Change is mass is expressed as the least squared means from a GLM with treatments and the number of days elapsed as a covariate. Different treatments correspond to the combination of mother (Mo) and chicks’ (Ch) treatment: control chicks from control mothers (MoC ChC); control chicks from vaccinated mothers (MoV ChC); vaccinated chicks from control mothers (MoC ChV); and vaccinated chicks from vaccinated mothers (MoV ChV). Mean values with the corresponding standard error (SE) are provided for the different blood metabolite parameters (Total antioxidant capacity (TAC); Carotenoids (CAR); Total protein (TPR); Uric Acid (UAC)), for chicks and mothers on different treatments. Sample sizes are given within parentheses.

Chicks	Mass change ± SE (g)	TAC ± SE (μmol/L)	CAR ± SE (mg/L)	TPR ± SE (mg/dL)	UAC ± SE (mg/dL)
MoC ChC	6.98 ± 0.70 (21)	931.34 ± 111.05 (21)	15.62 ± 2.26 (16)	2.23 ± 0.16 (21)	7.03 ± 0.62 (21)
MoC ChV	7.14 ± 0.63 (25)	721.07 ± 103.88 (24)	14.70 ± 2.02 (20)	2.14 ± 0.15 (24)	6.82 ± 0.58 (24)
MoV ChC	5.52 ± 0.73 (19)	890.97 ± 116.75 (19)	10.38 ± 2.26 (16)	2.10 ± 0.17 (19)	6.81 ± 0.65 (19)
MoV ChV	4.99 ± 0.67 (23)	888.00 ± 111.05 (21)	12.19 ± 2.08 (19)	2.36 ± 0.17 (21)	6.58 ± 0.62 (21)