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Seroprevalence and Molecular Epidemiology of Aleutian Disease in Various Countries during 1972–2021: A Review and Meta-Analysis

Animals, 2021
Aleutian disease (AD) poses a serious threat to both free-ranging and farmed mink around the world. The disease is caused by the Aleutian mink disease virus (AMDV), which also poses a health risk for other members of the family Mustelidae, including wild
Magdalena Zaleska-Wawro, Anna Szczerba-Turek, Wojciech Szweda, Jan Siemionek   +3 more
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Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate diet and niche partitioning in the native European otter (Lutra lutra) and invasive American mink (Neovison vison) [PDF]

Metabarcoding and Metagenomics, 2020
In the UK, the native European otter (Lutra lutra) and invasive American mink (Neovison vison) have experienced concurrent declines and expansions. Currently, the otter is recovering from persecution and waterway pollution, whereas the mink is in decline
Lynsey R. Harper, Hayley V. Watson, Robert Donnelly, Richard Hampshire, Carl D. Sayer, Thomas Breithaupt, Bernd Hänfling   +6 more
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Mandible shape variation and feeding biomechanics in minks

Scientific Reports, 2022
European and American minks are very similar in ecology, behavior and morphology. Both species hunt terrestrial vertebrates and aquatic prey, but the American mink is a more generalist predator which, among other factors, allows it to outcompete the ...
Eloy Gálvez-López, Philip G. Cox
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Metazoan parasite fauna of the American mink (Neogale vison) in comparison with the closely related European mink (Mustela lutreola) in Europe. [PDF]

Parasitol Res
Abstract The American mink Neogale vison is native to North America and was introduced to Europe at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although N. vison is not yet listed as an invasive species in Europe, it is suspected of having negative impacts on native ecosystems.
Schantz AV, Stutz R, Steinhoff A, Peter N, Klimpel S.   +4 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

High Trophic Niche Overlap between a Native and Invasive Mink Does Not Drive Trophic Displacement of the Native Mink during an Invasion Process

Animals, 2020
The pressure elicited by invasive species on native species significantly increases with the increase of the overlap of their ecological niches. Still, the specific mechanisms of the trophic displacement of native species during the invasion process are ...
Karla García, Carola Sanpera, Lluís Jover, Santiago Palazón, Joaquim Gosálbez, Konrad Górski, Yolanda Melero   +6 more
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Surveillance and control of SARS‐CoV‐2 in mustelids: An evolutionary perspective

Evolutionary Applications, 2021
The relevance of mustelids in SARS‐CoV‐2 transmission has become increasingly evident. Alongside experimental demonstration of airborne transmission among ferrets, the major animal model for human respiratory diseases, transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2 within ...
Adriana V. Díaz, Martin Walker, Joanne P. Webster   +2 more
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Autumn-winter diet of three carnivores, European mink (Mustela lutreola), Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) and small-spotted genet (Genetta genetta), in northern Spain

Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2009
This study describes the autumn-winter diet of three carnivores (Mustela lutreola, Lutra lutra and Genetta genetta) in northern Spain. Diet composition was analysed from 85 European mink, 156 otter and 564 spotted genet fecal samples The European mink ...
Santiago Palazón i Miñano, J. Ruiz-Olmo, Joaquim Gosàlbez i Noguera   +2 more
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Wildlife reservoirs of canine distemper virus resulted in a major outbreak in Danish farmed mink (Neovison vison). [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2014
A major outbreak of canine distemper virus (CDV) in Danish farmed mink (Neovison vison) started in the late summer period of 2012. At the same time, a high number of diseased and dead wildlife species such as foxes, raccoon dogs, and ferrets were ...
Ramona Trebbien, Mariann Chriel, Tina Struve, Charlotte Kristiane Hjulsager, Gitte Larsen, Lars Erik Larsen   +5 more
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Off-midline versus supraumbilical specimen extraction sites in robot-assisted radical prostatectomy. [PDF]

BJU Int
Objectives To compare two different specimen extraction sites (SES) (off‐midline [OM] vs. supraumbilical) for the incidence of incisional hernias (IHs) and to evaluate different risk factors for their occurrence after robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy.
Vollemaere J, Bastian J, Mink J, Wagenpfeil G, Janssen M, Maßmann C, Saar M, Siemer S, Stöckle M, Heinzelbecker J.   +9 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

European Mink–Polecat Hybridization Events: Hazards From Natural Process? [PDF]

Journal of Heredity, 2005
Determining the significance of hybridization events raises essential issues both in conservation and in evolutionary biology. Here, we report a genetic investigation of sympatric polecat and endangered European mink populations. Although the two species were morphologically very similar, the European mink and the polecat were easily discriminated from
Lodé, T., Guiral, G., Peltier, Didier
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