small mammals
Borrelia spp in small mammals in Romania
... The patterns of host association of different Borrelia spp. species are reported to differ remarkably [16]. The life-cycle of B. afzelii is dependent on multi-trophic inter- actions driven by the aggregation of ticks on ...
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Borrelia Species in Host Seeking Ticks and Small Mammals in Northern Florida
... sampling. Small mammals were captured live in Sherman traps baited with wild birdseed set in line transects in different habitat types at UNFWS and GRSPWMA between April and September 1999 and from July ...
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Design, limitations and sustained metabolic rate: lessons from small mammals
... in mammals is the heat generated by non-shivering thermogenesis in brown adipose tissue, which is one of the most important mechanisms for thermogenesis in small mammals in seasonal habitats ...
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Fleas of small mammals on Reunion Island: diversity, distribution and epidemiological consequences
... parasitizing small mammals have been poorly investigated on Indian Ocean islands with the exception of Madagascar where endemic plague has stimulated extensive research on these arthropod ...Island. ...
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Plagiorchis sp. in small mammals of Senegal and the potential emergence of a zoonotic trematodiasis
... Between May 2016 and December 2017, we trapped, humanely euthanized, and necropsied small mammals in compliance with ethical guidelines and methodologies previously described (Catalano et al., 2018). For ...
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Small mammals at forest plantations in the Jeseníky Mts. (Czech Republic)
... the small mammal community was strongly aff ected by the herb layer ...the small mammal biodiversity in our production forests. small mammals, Rodentia, Soricidae, Jeseníky ...
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Fleas and trypanosomes of peridomestic small mammals in sub Saharan Mali
... 744 small mammals that included 11 species of rodents and three species of shrews [7] (Additional file 1: Table ...of Mammals (accession numbers USNM 599343–USNM ...
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Ectoparasites of small mammals: ecology, infection and management in the changing world
... 2006). Small mammals are important in the maintenance and transmission of many zoonotic pathogens with increasing urbanization and the resulting emergence of tick-borne zoonotic diseases (Hainesa et ...of ...
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Exploring the concept of niche convergence in a land without rodents: the case of weta as small mammals
... Abstract: The distinctiveness of New Zealand’s large endemic orthopterans and lack of small mammals in our forest ecosystems led to the description of weta as ecologically equivalent to rodents in other ...
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Immediate increase in isotopic enrichment in small mammals following the expansion of a great cormorant colony
... Species-related differences in the isotopic signatures of the two dominant rodent species may be explained by diet dif- ferences and microhabitat use, both supporting coexistence (Stenseth et al., 2002; Cassaing et al., ...
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Diurnality as an energy saving strategy: energetic consequences of temporal niche switching in small mammals
... Most mammals are specialized to be active during the night (nocturnal) or day ...nocturnal mammals become diurnal when energetically challenged by cold or ...nocturnal small mammals under ...
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Pathogenic Leptospira in Commensal Small Mammals from the Extensively Urbanized Coastal Benin
... Abstract: Leptospirosis is caused by spirochete bacteria of the genus Leptospira that affect one million and kill 60,000 persons annually in the world, who get infected through environmental mammal-excreted (notably ...
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The distribution and behaviour of small mammals in relation to natural and modified snow in the Australian Alps
... The winter ecology of small mammals in the Australian Alps has received limited attention to date, especially in relation to the role of snow cover and the development of the subnivean s[r] ...
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Distribution and abundance of small mammals in relation to habitat in Pureora Forest Park
... introduced mammals at Pureora, e.g. more small, terrestrial rodents (more of both individuals and species) plus mustelids in early-succession stands and more larger, arboreal “squirrels” in mature stands, ...
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An identification guide to the small mammals of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
... our small mammals we can monitor their distributions and gain a greater understanding of their populations and status within the ...the small mammals of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly will ...
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What explains the trot–gallop transition in small mammals?
... mammals has been widely hypothesized to be a strategy to minimize the energetic costs of running. This view, however, has been challenged by some experimental evidence suggesting instead that this transition might ...
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Ontogenetic development of locomotion in small mammals a kinematic study
... Major changes in limb position occurred at lift-off during locomotor ontogeny. In both species, mean lift-off angles of the scapula, lower arm, femur and foot increased during development. This resulted in higher ...
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Widespread arenavirus occurrence and seroprevalence in small mammals, Nigeria
... Small mammals were tested for Lassa virus (LASV) IgG antibody using an indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA). As LASV and other closely related arenaviruses are known to cross-react serologically, ...
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An illustrated key to the mandibles of small mammals of eastern Canada
... We found that 55 of the 60 small mammal species of eastern Canada could be identified from their man - dibles. the White-footed Mouse (Peromyscus leuco- pus) and the Deer Mouse (P. maniculatus) could not be ...
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Forelimb proportions and kinematics: how are small primates different from other small mammals?
... it. Small mammals deal easily with unexpected irregularities in the support and are highly adapted to compensate for any disturbance in the trajectory of the centre of body mass because of their permanent ...
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