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A systematic review and meta‐analysis of variation in nest predation of ground‐nesting birds

Ibis, EarlyView.
Predation and communities of predators of ground‐nesting bird nests and fledglings have been studied across multiple groups of ground‐nesting birds, such as waders, waterbirds, gamebirds and passerines, and habitats, but differences and similarities between groups are less studied.
Mari D. Klaussen, Kevin A. Wood, Alex Nicol‐Harper, Anita Diaz Isla, Emilie A. Hardouin, Richard A. Stillman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Opportunities for genomic selection in American mink: A simulation study

PLOS ONE, 2019
Genomic selection can be considered as an effective tool for developing breeding programs in American mink. However, the genetic gains for economically important traits can be influenced by the accuracy of genomic predictions. The objective of this study was to investigate the prediction accuracies of traditional best linear unbiased prediction (BLUP),
Karim Karimi, Mehdi Sargolzaei, Graham Stuart Plastow, Zhiquan Wang, Younes Miar   +4 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Population dynamics and reproductive success of Short‐eared Owls in relation to widely fluctuating food abundance and farmland habitat degradation

Ibis, EarlyView.
Populations of the Short‐eared Owl Asio flammeus have declined across Europe and North America, probably in response to habitat degradation driven by agricultural intensification. However, long‐term evidence linking farmland habitat change to variation in breeding density and reproductive success remains limited.
Erkki Korpimäki, Tero Klemola, Minna Koivula   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the Establishment of American Mink (Neogale vison) Escapees from the Fur Industry in Bulgaria

Ecologies
Mink farming has seen a resurgence in Bulgaria since 2013, and this has led to a high risk of American mink escaping and establishing feral populations. The largest active commercial farm in the country has a capacity of nearly 130,000 animals.
Polina K. Nikova, Maria Kachamakova, Yordan Koshev   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterizing Runs of Homozygosity and Inbreeding in American Mink Using SNP Data and Pedigree Information

Journal of Animal Breeding and Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Inbreeding increases the likelihood of deleterious recessive alleles becoming homozygous and consequently affecting economically important traits. Runs of homozygosity (ROH), the continuous homozygous segments of the genome and the higher than expected homozygosity (HOM) are genomic indicators of inbreeding, quantified as FROH and FHOM ...
Persia Carol Thapa, Duy Ngoc Do, Pourya Davoudi, Ghader Manafiazar, Younes Miar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Additional file 1 of Genome-wide detection of copy number variation in American mink using whole-genome sequencing

, 2022
Additional file 1: Table S1. List of CNVs identified on 100 American mink genomes. Table S2. Detail information of the detected CNVR. Table S3. List of genes completely/partially overlapped with CNVR in American mink. Table S4.
Stefanie M. Colombo (2901194), Graham Plastow (174335), Karim Karimi (3326445), Pourya Davoudi (9346855), Zhiquan Wang (38051), Bruce Rathgeber (12845684), Shafagh Valipour (13778696), Younes Miar (650536), Guoyu Hu (6557363), Duy Ngoc Do (13778693), Mehdi Sargolzaei (551369)   +10 more
core   +1 more source

Analysis of Essential Minerals and Heavy Metals in Canine and Feline Dietary Supplements Marketed in the United States

Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Heavy metals have been documented in dietary supplements for people and animals. Cadmium, selenium, lead, and mercury are of particular concern. Our objective was to determine the concentrations of five essential minerals and 12 heavy metals in 70 canine and feline dietary supplements, and to evaluate potential toxicity risks.
Taryn K. Pestalozzi, Andrea J. Fascetti, Jennifer A. Larsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Growth hormone and growth hormone gene of the American mink (Neovison vison) – the current state of knowledge of one of the key hormones in one of the most intensively economically exploited species

Acta Biologica, 2017
Despite the fact, that the American mink (Neovison vison) is one of the most intensively economically exploited and problematic, from the ecological point of view, fur-bearing animal, it remains one of the least studied livestock species.
Jakub Skorupski
doaj   +1 more source

Animal Segregation: The Biopolitics of Concentrated Pig Farming

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the possibility to think through the concept of animal segregation to understand the more‐than‐human geographies of livestock animals. By redirecting the analytical tools for studying the spatial separation of humans to the segregation of animals, this paper contributes to understanding the geographical processes of ...
Willem Rogier Boterman
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling of prehospital blood: A model describing impact on U.S. blood donors, distribution and cost

Transfusion, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Prehospital transfusion improves survival in traumatic and medical hemorrhage, but the blood supply implications of scaling this capability across U.S. emergency medical services (EMS) systems are unclear. Study Design and Methods We developed an analytic model incorporating national estimates of prehospital transfusion demand, EMS ...
Pampee P. Young, David Wood, John B. Holcomb, Donald H. Jenkins, Matthew J. Levy   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source