Spatial Associations of Livestock Guardian Dogs and Domestic Sheep
Human-Wildlife Interactions, 2019 Livestock guardian dogs (Canis lupus familiaris; LGDs) have been used for centuries to protect livestock, primarily domestic sheep (Ovis aries), from depredation by large carnivores.
Julie Young +2 more
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Safety and Immunogenicity of a Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae Bacterin for Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries)
PLoS ONE, 2014 Background Mortality from epizootic pneumonia is hindering re-establishment of bighorn sheep populations in western North America. Mycoplasma ovipneumoniae, a primary agent of this disease, is frequently carried asymptomatically by the domestic sheep and
J. Ziegler +6 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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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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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases, 2021 Natural herbivore populations have experienced uninterrupted pressures from direct and evident domestic-wildlife interactions and competition, to indirect or less obvious ones such as pathogen transmission.
P. Corti +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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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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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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The tonsils revisited: review of the anatomical localization and histological characteristics of the tonsils of domestic and laboratory animals [PDF]
, 2011 This paper gives an overview of the anatomical localization and histological characteristics of the tonsils that are present in ten conventional domestic animal species, including the sheep, goat, ox, pig, horse, dog, cat, rabbit, rat, and pigeon ...
Casteleyn, Christophe +3 more
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