Deer Mice
Age and aerobic performance in deer mice
... in deer mice has been intensively ...America, deer mouse populations show an array of polymorphisms in the α- chains of hemoglobin that are geographically correlated with altitude (Snyder 1981; ...
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Kinetics of Immune Responses in Deer Mice Experimentally Infected with Sin Nombre Virus
... Deer mice are the principal reservoir hosts of Sin Nombre virus, the etiologic agent of most hantavirus cardiopulmonary syn- drome cases in North ...of deer mice results in persistence without ...
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Genetic differences in hemoglobin function between highland and lowland deer mice
... not readily detectable across especially steep elevational gradients, and that the spatial patterning of adaptive physiological differentiation was only discernable at a more macrogeographic scale [for example, in ...
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Voluntary running in deer mice: speed, distance, energy costs and temperature effects
... Deer mice are good natural models for studies of exercise ...these mice routinely move across hundreds of meters of linear distance ...range, deer mice seldom encounter thermoneutral ...
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Development partly determines the aerobic performance of adult deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus
... in deer mice born at and acclimated to high altitude when compared with deer mice maintained at low ...3800·m, deer mice increased hematocrit by ~9% (Hammond et ...equal, ...
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Grazing Effects on Deer Mice with Implications to Human Exposure to Sin Nombre Virus - Intermountain Journal of Sciences
... life traps (8 x 9 x 23 cm, H.B. Sherman Trap Co., Tallahassee, Florida, USA), with 10-m spacing between traps, were set with the experimental buildings in the center of the grid, and checked each day for 3 consecutive ...
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Seasonal Moulting in Deer Mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) in the Rocky Mountains, Alberta
... Although a seasonal trend showing a peak in the post-breeding period occurred in adult males, some continuous moulting also occurred throughout the year. Our data agree with Collins (1923), who described con- tinuous ...
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Phenotypic plasticity in blood–oxygen transport in highland and lowland deer mice
... highland deer mice mirror the acclimatization response to hypoxia in lowland species ...highland deer mice have a hematological profile that is more similar to that of Andean humans than to ...
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Schistosome infection in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus): impacts on host physiology, behavior and energetics
... in deer mice did lead to reduced serum albumin, typically interpreted as an indication of liver disease (Loeb and Quimby, 1989; Meagher, ...control deer mice were similar to those of healthy ...
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The relationship between cardiopulmonary size and aerobic performance in adult deer mice at high altitude
... Because deer mice are widely distributed, both geographically throughout North America and across a wide altitudinal range, they have been a model system for the study of mammalian high altitude ...These ...
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Contributions of phenotypic plasticity to differences in thermogenic performance between highland and lowland deer mice
... in deer mice, but studies from other rodents suggest that aerobic endurance is influenced by a number of factors including muscle fiber composition and respiratory capacity (Hoppeler et ...
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AN ASSESSMENT OF "HIDDEN" HETEROGENEITY WITHIN ELECTROMORPHS AT THREE ENZYME LOCI IN DEER MICE
... The non-Mendelian behavior of thermal stability variation in one cross and the remarkably large total number of variants observed for this enzyme raise the possibility [r] ...
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Heat loss from deer mice (Peromyscus): evaluation of seasonal limits to thermoregulation
... Environmental conditions On the ground or snow surface under a clear night sky, the mouse may be exposed over half its body surface to a sky radiative temperature as low as — 70 °C Swinb[r] ...
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Effect of Rock Cover on Small Mammal Abundance in a Montana Grassland - Intermountain Journal of Sciences
... Montana deer mouse abundance and prevalence of antibodies to SNV are on average highest in sagebrush (Artemesia tridentata) dominated environments (Douglass et ...However, deer mice can also be ...
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Of mice and men and trillium: Cascading effects of forest fragmentation
... on deer mice may have important implications for trillium. Deer mouse densities were estimated in August, which coincides with the height of trillium seed set at these sites ...of mice led to ...
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Comparison of infectivities of six tick derived isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi for rodents and ticks
... Webster mice and by serology in 4 of 11 and two of seven deer mice and hamsters, ...among deer mice inoculated with CA4 than among those inoculated with CA3, CA7, or ...Webster ...
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Polychlorinated Biphenyls in Whole Body Field Mice Collected Upgradient and Downgradient of a Sediment Retention Structure in Los Alamos Canyon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, USA
... field mice collected upgradient and downgradient of the LAC weir were statistically com- pared with PCB concentrations from field mice collected from regional background areas (n = 12) away from the ...
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As Runs the Deer
... It is time to travel the great northern slopes to collect his winter provisions. Flinging the small canvas pack over his shoulder, he steps into the chill blue waters and crosses barefooted their gravelly bed. Drawing ...
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The Deer and the Viking
... the urban consumers, the rural landscape, and the deer. There are good reasons to doubt the suggestion that combmakers could have arrived at market hoping that the locals would supply them with raw materials at a ...
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Public Management Decisions Related to the Decline of California Deer Populations: A Comparative Management Approach
... for Deer Hunting Tags Supply on public and private land can be increased by habitat management, usually requiring some ...of deer preferences in Maryland, but did not estimate specific supply and demand ...
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