Red Squirrels
Seasonal, spatial, and maternal effects on gut microbiome in wild red squirrels
... American red squir- rels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus). As part of the Kluane Red Squirrel Project, every red squirrel in the population has been continuously monitored in each year since 1987, and ...
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Novel Host-Related Virulence Factors Are Encoded by Squirrelpox Virus, the Main Causative Agent of Epidemic Disease in Red Squirrels in the UK
... Squirrelpox virus (SQPV) shows little evidence for morbidity or mortality in North American grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis), in which the virus is endemic. However, more recently the virus has emerged to ...
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Mortalities, amyloidosis and other diseases in free-living red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) on Jersey, Channel Islands
... Jersey squirrels, with multiple cases influencing population health ...Jersey squirrels are ...Jersey squirrels may be at greater risk from genetic threats and exposure to a variety of pathogens and ...
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Squirrelpox Virus: Assessing Prevalence, Transmission and Environmental Degradation
... positive red squirrel and its absence from the faeces and saliva of PCR positive grey squirrels suggests that environmental spread of the virus may be a viable route of transmission in red ...
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The discursive representation of British wildlife in The Times newspaper, 1785–2005
... the red squirrel, its cultural representation has developed from a woodland pest to a nostalgic symbol of a rural past in response to the establishment of the grey species, which has itself been framed as a threat ...
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Detection of squirrel poxvirus by nested and real-time PCR from red (Sciurus vulgaris) and grey (Sciurus carolinensis) squirrels
... 2008, red squirrel bodies were recovered from the Formby National Trust reserve (UK grid reference SD281082) and grey squirrels were culled from controlled sites within a 10 km radius of the ...Grey ...
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Some Results of The Helminthological And Bacteriological Investigations of Insectivores (Insectivora: Erinaceidae) And Rodents (Rodentia: Sciuridae) On The Territory of The Urban Forest Area of Megapolis Under Conditions of Anthropogenic Pressure
... three squirrels (2 Eurasian red squirrels (Sciurus vulgaris) and 1 Teleut squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris exalbidus) - introduced species from the Far East) and four common or European hedgehogs ...
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The kinematic consequences of locomotion on sloped arboreal substrates in a generalized (Rattus norvegicus) and a specialized (Sciurus vulgaris) rodent
... European red squirrels used asymmetrical gaits (0 and 30deg: gallop; 60deg: half-bound) regardless of the inclination of the ...European red squirrels placed their hindlimbs synchronously ...
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Transmission dynamics and pathogenesis of squirrelpox in UK red (Sciurus vulgaris) and grey squirrels (Sciurus carolinensis)
... native red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in the ...red squirrels. Current knowledge of SQPV dynamics in grey squirrels is based on opportunistic sample datasets originating from grey ...
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Modelling ecological networks and dispersal in grey squirrels
... native red squirrel population and on forestry, it is critical to be able to manage species movements and ...the red squirrel within the county. The designation of red squirrel reserves is an ...
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Isolation of Bartonella washoensis from a Dog with Mitral Valve Endocarditis
... However, the arthropod vector of B. washoensis has not yet been identified. The ground squirrels from northern Califor- nia, among which B. washoensis bacteremic animals were iden- tified, were heavily infested ...
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Regulation of the mTOR signaling network in hibernating thirteen lined ground squirrels
... ground squirrels (Ictidomys tridecemlineatus), is hibernation, an altered physiological state characterized by seasonal heterothermy and entry into long periods of torpor that are interspersed with short arousals ...
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Changes in the Mitochondrial Phosphoproteome during Mammalian Hibernation
... All procedures were approved by the University of Western Ontario Animal Use Subcommittee (Protocol number: #2008-055-06; Appendix D). Adult Ictidomys tridecemlineatus were captured (using live-traps) from the wild ...
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Trade offs between immunity and testosterone in male African ground squirrels
... Our experiments indicated that an immune challenge had a significant negative effect on the circulating testosterone levels of male squirrels. This pattern is consistent with the ISH first proposed by Boonekamp et ...
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Three dimensional launch kinematics in leaping, parachuting and gliding squirrels
... the red squirrel Tamiasciurus hudsonicus, an arboreal parachuter, and the southern flying squirrel Glaucomys volans, an arboreal ...within squirrels and provide a good sample of sciurid diversity ...tree ...
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Tribute to P L Lutz: putting life on `pause' – molecular regulation of hypometabolism
... RNA polymerase II is the enzyme that transcribes DNA to make mRNA. Previous studies showed that overall rates of transcript elongation were suppressed during hibernation, providing presumptive evidence that RNA ...
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Do Squirrels Eat Hamburgers?: Intellectual Empathy as a Remedy for Residual Prejudice
... The reason for the failure, I maintain, is the result of residual prejudice and the invisibility of the social types who as Fricker says, “stand in re- lations of power to one anothe[r] ...
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Increased cholinergic contractions of jejunal smooth muscle caused by a high cholesterol diet are prevented by the 5-HT4agonist – tegaserod
... A nervous system-dependent component to cholinergic agonist contractions of the intestinal tissues from Richard- son ground squirrels was revealed. Since TTX removed an inhibitory component of cholinergic ...
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Subtle short term physiological costs of an experimental augmentation of fleas in wild Columbian ground squirrels
... We experimentally increased ectoparasite load on 16 females (treatment group) and compared them with 15 control females (control group; see below). At the start of the experiment, we ascertained U. columbianus body ...
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Use of salmon ( Oncorhynchus spp.) by Brown Bears ( Ursus arctos ) in an Arctic, interior, montane environment
... Ground Squirrels [Spermophilus parryii], and Moose [Alces americanus]), as well as plants, nuts, and other foods when access to marine resources, such as salmon, is limited (Welch et ...
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