Peromyscus Maniculatus
Seasonal Moulting in Deer Mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) in the Rocky Mountains, Alberta
... ( Peromyscus maniculatus) in the Kananaskis River valley, Alberta, Canada, to test the hypothesis that moulting is restricted to the times of year that do not overlap with other high-energy demands, such as ...
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Overwintering diet quality and timing of initiation of breeding in the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus)
... (Peromyscus maniculatus) at Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada, early seasonal births are related to overwinter protein supplementation. It is not however known if natural variation in diet quality has the same ...
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Sexually dimorphic spatial learning in meadow voles Microtus pennsylvanicus and deer mice Peromyscus maniculatus
... A number of studies examining developmental, neural and hormonal aspects of sexually dimorphic spatial learning (Morris water-maze) in meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) and deer mice (Peromyscus ...
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Development partly determines the aerobic performance of adult deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus
... organism’s everyday life, particularly at high altitude (Pough, 1980; Hayes and Shonkwiler, 1996). We used the North American deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus Le Conte) as a model for study for several ...
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Psychrotolerant Microfungi Associated with Deer Mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ) in a White-nose Syndrome Positive Bat Hibernaculum in Eastern Canada
... Peromyscus maniculatus remain active throughout the winter and hence do not undergo a drop in body temperature, unlike hibernating ...P. maniculatus overwintering in caves are likely to groom more ...
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Shedding and Intracage Transmission of Sin Nombre Hantavirus in the Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) Model
... Hantaviruses (Bunyaviridae family; Hantavirus genus) are rodent-borne viruses with a worldwide distribution. As with other members of the family Bunyaviridae, hantaviruses are enveloped and have a tripartite, ...
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GENETICS OF HEMOGLOBIN IN THE DEER MOUSE, PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS. II. MULTIPLE ALLELES AT REGULATORY LOCI
... It has been assumed that the quantitative variation stems from multiple reg- ulatory alleles, such that the globin production of an individual structural locus is controlled by[r] ...
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GENETICS OF HEMOGLOBIN IN THE DEER MOUSE, PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS. I. MULTIPLE α- AND β-GLOBIN STRUCTURAL LOCI
... It turns out that JENSEN (1969) was correct in assuming that all the structural alleles produce functional globin products. Several questions remain unresolved, the [r] ...
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Persistent Sin Nombre Virus Infection in the Deer Mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) Model: Sites of Replication and Strand-Specific Expression
... 96-well plate. All of our standard curves produced a ⫺0.995 or better correlation coefficient between the quantity of template loaded and the log of the Ct value. SIA for detection of anti-N antibodies in deer mouse ...
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Schistosome infection in deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus): impacts on host physiology, behavior and energetics
... particular, may have small impacts on host energetics, performance and fitness. While non-natural hosts infected with S. douthitti suffer high fitness costs (i.e. mortality), some natural hosts tolerate higher parasite ...
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Antibody responses to Four Corners hantavirus infections in the deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus): identification of an immunodominant region of the viral nucleocapsid protein.
... P. maniculatus IgG antibodies reacted strongly with the pFCV-S- 330 protein (aa 1 to 112) and reacted substantially less strongly with the pFCV-S-NEx91 protein (aa 17 to 112) ...
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Genetic Analysis of the Diversity and Origin of Hantaviruses in Peromyscus leucopus Mice in North America
... (Peromyscus maniculatus), an indigenous North American rodent of the subfamily Sigmo- dontinae, was shortly identified as the primary natural reser- voir for SN virus ...
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Normal testicular structure and reproductive function in deermice lacking retinol and alcohol dehydrogenase activity
... It was found that a strain of deermice Peromyscus maniculatus, which genetically lacks liver alcohol dehydrogenase activity also displays no such activity in the testis and is devoid of [r] ...
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Sin Nombre Virus Pathogenesis inPeromyscus maniculatus
... mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, has been identified as the primary reservoir host for ...P. maniculatus, we examined wild deer mice for localization of viral antigens and nucleic ...
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Cold acclimation in Peromyscus: individual variation and sex effects in maximum and daily metabolism, organ mass and body composition
... We studied metabolic and organ mass responses to thermal acclimation (7 weeks at 5°C or 23°C) in deer mice, Peromyscus maniculatus . Cold acclimation resulted in significantly higher maximal oxygen ...
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Effect of Rock Cover on Small Mammal Abundance in a Montana Grassland - Intermountain Journal of Sciences
... (Peromyscus maniculatus) and prevalence of Sin Nombre virus (SNV) using long-term live trapping and habitat data from three live trapping grids and a short- term (three month), spatially replicated study ...
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Factors affecting larval tick feeding success: host, density and time
... (Peromyscus maniculatus) in several experiments to determine how tick density, host defense, and ages of mice and ticks interact to influence feeding ...
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Effects of Altitude and Temperature on Organ Phenotypic Plasticity Along an Altitudinal Gradient
... Another way to examine the benefits of organ plasticity is to examine these changes along natural environmental gradients. Deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus) represent an ideal model species for this ...
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Comparison of infectivities of six tick derived isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi for rodents and ticks
... The infectivity and dissemination to the skin of six isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi were evaluated by inoculating them into groups of deer mice (Peromyscus maniculatus), hamsters, and Swiss Webster mice. ...
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The reliability of observational approaches for detecting interspecific parasite interactions: comparison with experimental results
... in Peromyscus, and 71% reduction in prevalence within 3 weeks of treatment in Apode- ...the Peromyscus study and two grids in the Apodemus study) on which no animals received treatment; there was no ...
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