Seed dispersal dynamics in northern Iran: a comparative analysis of native large mammals and domestic sheep [PDF]
BMC Ecology and EvolutionBackground Seed dispersal through endozoochory plays a fundamental role in maintaining plant population dynamics, genetic connectivity, and habitat resilience, particularly in mountainous biodiversity hotspots.
Zahra Shakoori +3 more
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Study of Signatures of Positive Selection and Gene Ontology in some Domestic and Wild Sheep Breeds in Iran [PDF]
پژوهشهای علوم دامی ایران, 2023 Introduction[1]: Over the years, animals have been exposed to various factors such as natural selection, genetic drift, and multiple mutations, so such factors have caused changes between and within species.
Majid Bigham +3 more
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Spatial and temporal phylogeny of border disease virus in pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra p. Pyrenaica) [PDF]
, 2016 Border disease virus (BDV) affects a wide range of ruminants worldwide, mainly domestic sheep and goat. Since 2001 several outbreaks of disease associated to BDV infection have been described in Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica pyrenaica) in Spain ...
Cabezón, Oscar +11 more
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Exposure of bighorn sheep to domestic goats colonized with Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae induces sub-lethal pneumonia. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Bronchopneumonia is a population limiting disease of bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) that has been associated with contact with domestic Caprinae. The disease is polymicrobial but is initiated by Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, which is commonly carried by ...
Thomas E Besser +3 more
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Potential disease agents in domestic goats and relevance to bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) management. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Domestic goats are raised for meat, milk and hair production, in herds for rangeland weed control, and as pack animals. Domestic sheep, goats and wild bighorn sheep are all susceptible to a multifactorial pneumonia.
Mark L Drew, Glen C Weiser
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Linkage Disequilibrium in Domestic Sheep [PDF]
Genetics, 2002 Abstract The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the number of livestock QTL mapping studies. The next challenge awaiting livestock geneticists is to determine the actual genes responsible for variation of economically important traits.
McRae, AF +5 more
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Ecology and Evolution, 2021 A respiratory disease epizootic at the National Bison Range (NBR) in Montana in 2016–2017 caused an 85% decline in the bighorn sheep population, documented by observations of its unmarked but individually identifiable members, the subjects of an ongoing ...
Thomas E. Besser +6 more
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Molecular Identification of Sarcocystis Species in Sheep from Lithuania
Animals, 2022 Data on the distribution of different Sarcocystis species in various muscles of sheep are scarce. In the present study, 190 diaphragm, oesophagus, and heart muscle samples of 69 sheep raised in Lithuania were examined for the presence of Sarcocystis spp.
Alina Marandykina-Prakienė +6 more
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Paternal Origins and Migratory Episodes of Domestic Sheep [PDF]
Current Biology, 2020 The domestication and subsequent global dispersal of livestock are crucial events in human history, but the migratory episodes during the history of livestock remain poorly documented [1-3]. Here, we first developed a set of 493 novel ovine SNPs of the male-specific region of Y chromosome (MSY) by genome mapping.
Deng, Juan +46 more
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Species affinities in domestic sheep and goats
California Agriculture, 1979 Although sheep exhibit a stronger tendency to follow their own kind, goats are the more social of the two species.
E Price, K Tomlinson
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