bighorn (mountain) sheep
Translating effects of inbreeding depression on component vital rates to overall population growth in endangered bighorn sheep
... To simulate genetic rescue, we modeled population responses to increasing average multilocus heterozygos- ity. We conducted management simulations only for the Mono Basin population because this was the herd of greatest ...
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Association of Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae Infection with Population Limiting Respiratory Disease in Free Ranging Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis canadensis)
... of bighorn sheep in Hells Canyon in 2006 based on observation of respiratory signs (coughing, nasal discharge) and recovery of dead ...adult bighorn ram observed with severe respiratory disease signs ...
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Declines of Bighorn Sheep, Ovis canadensis , on Deteriorating Winter Range in Jasper National Park, Alberta, 1981-2010
... The Bighorn Sheep is the most numerous species of ungulate in Jasper National ...ranges, sheep reach their highest concen- trations in the lower Athabasca River valley (Cowan 1947; Soper 1970; ...
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A Multivalent Mannheimia-Bibersteinia Vaccine Protects Bighorn Sheep against Mannheimia haemolytica Challenge
... Bighorn sheep (BHS) are more susceptible than domestic sheep (DS) to Mannheimia haemolytica pneumonia. Although both species carry M. haemolytica as a commensal bacterium in the nasopharynx, DS carry ...
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Short-Term Impacts of Fire-Mediated Habitat Alterations on an Isolated Bighorn Sheep Population
... lared bighorn sheep (12 F, 4 M) from the 24 captured within the study area to identify changes in home range distributions after ...in bighorn distribution at 50 % and 95 % home range con- ...
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Simulated Effects of Two Fire Regimes on Bighorn Sheep: The San Gabriel Mountains, California, USA
... ferred by those ruminants (Bleich and Holl 1980, USFS et al. 2004, Bleich et al. 2008, Holl and Bleich 2010), but “managed wild- fires” could also be used if addressed in a wil- derness fire management plan after ...
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Puma predation on radiocollared and uncollared bighorn sheep
... We tested the "conspicuous individual hypothesis" and found that there was no difference in puma predation upon radiocollared and uncollared bighorn sheep. Our results are consistent with the view ...
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Forage and serum phosphorus values for bighorn sheep.
... The alpine summer range provides ade- quate amounts of phosphorus for winter requirements (certain bands of bighorn sheep remain on alpine ranges year-round) where[r] ...
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Genetic Variation of Major Histocompatibility Complex and Microsatellite Loci: A Comparison in Bighorn Sheep
... When we did calculate repeat size-based genetic distances (assuming a dinucle- otide repeat) for this locus, values averaged -400 for comparisons between populations in the [r] ...
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Volume 32, Number 6 (November 1979)
... Bighorn sheep and mule deer grazed bluebunch wheatgrass on areas on a Wyoming big sagebrush/bluebunch wheatgrass winter range significantly greater than adjacent un[r] ...
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Heart rate variability analysis in sheep affected by transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
... Recordings were amplified, digitised and processed using a micro 1401 MK II data acquisition unit and computer software Spike2 version 4 (CED, Cambridge, UK). Each R-peak of a QRS complex was marked. The HRV was ...
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Pathogenicity of molecularly cloned bovine leukemia virus.
... _ Southern analysis of SstI digests of PBMC DNA from infected sheep yielded detectable signal only from cloneinfected sheep L4 and 41 at 38 and 53 months p.i., respectively, and sheep 5,[r] ...
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Cloning and characterisation of the cDNA and gene for sheep liver arginase : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Biochemistry at Massey University, Palmerston North
... Lane 4: A 500 bp product was amplified from a sheep cDNA library using the sheep degenerate forward l primer and the sheep degenerate reverse primer see Appendix 1 for primer sequences..[r] ...
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Sheep-Passaged Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Agent Exhibits Altered Pathobiological Properties in Bovine-PrP Transgenic Mice
... ARQ/ARQ sheep scrapie iso- lates to BoPrP-Tg110 mice and the further reduction of incu- bation period in second passage also sustain the species barriers ...ARQ/ARQ sheep BSE versus ARQ/ARQ scrapie ...the ...
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The production of volatile fatty acids in sheep on different pasture types : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requiremenrts for the degree of Master of Agricultural Science at Massey University
... Lens aDd Leonard ( 1 965 ) also u sed a oont lnuou a latualon t e cbDlq u e to m e a sur e VPA produ ct ion ra tes 1D sheep fed lucerne b«J. Prod u c t ion was c alculated on 'he basis o� ooaetant apeo 1tlo ...
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A comparative study of clinical manifestations, haematological and serological responses after experimental infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum in two Norwegian sheep breeds
... Blood samples were collected from a flock of Norwegian sheep known to be infected with A. phagocytophilum. Based on partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, a var- iant of A. phagocytophilum was found in one lamb, ...
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Contested Common Land Project:Ingleton Commons
... The stocking of the Fell has increased by 100 ewes last year, while the total number of 1775 does not include any sheep owned by Commoners who shepherd their own sheep, such as the occupiers of Crooklands, ...
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Prolactin and wool growth in the Romney ewe : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in animal science at Massey University
... The seasonal nature of New Zealand's lamb production has been identified as a major limitation to the value of New Zealand's lamb exports (John son , 1989). In response to this, there has been an increasing trend for ...
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Sheep´s Milk, Production and Welfare in Rearing of Sheep
... 210. Sheep were kept in the barn on deep litter, which consisted of ...manger. Sheep had unlimited access to roughage and ...were sheep placed in the fold and fed grazing forage ...
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Sheep Shearing Impact on Garutian Sheep Physiological Responses
... the sheep’ physiological response as a result of shearing by evaluating heat tolerance ...Garut sheep groups ranged from ...both sheep groups was ...Garut sheep groups during the study have ...
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