Cropland restricts occurrence and alters spatial ecology near the mule deer geographical range limit [PDF]
Movement EcologyBackground Habitat fragmentation can influence the spatial ecology of wildlife populations, with downstream effects on population dynamics and sustainability.
Levi J. Heffelfinger +7 more
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Endemic chronic wasting disease causes mule deer population decline in Wyoming [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus), Rocky Mountain elk (Cervus elaphus nelsoni), and moose (Alces alces shirasi) in North ...
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Effects of underburning on habitat use of mule deer during migration
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2019 Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) populations have been declining throughout their range and deteriorating habitat conditions are likely one cause of these declines. Reductions in food and cover availability along traditional routes may especially
Carolyn A. Eckrich +4 more
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Echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function in mules under general anesthesia induced with a high-dose xylazine-based protocol [PDF]
Veterinary WorldBackground and Aim: Echocardiographic assessment in equines is typically performed on standing animals; however, no studies have evaluated left ventricular function in anesthetized mules using high-dose xylazine.
Pannawat Puangsubsin +5 more
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Classification of an equine skull in the Science Museum of Coimbra, Portugal, by means of multivariate and qualitative analysis [PDF]
Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”, 2021 The study aimed at classifying an equine skull stored in Museu da Ciência da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra (Portugal) on the basis of its morphology using multivariate analyses.
Pere M. Parés-Casanova +3 more
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De novo chromosome-length assembly of the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) genome
GigaByte, 2021 The mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) is an ungulate species that is distributed in a range from western Canada to central Mexico. Mule deer are an essential source of food for many predators, are relatively abundant, and commonly make broad ...
Sydney Lamb +10 more
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California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2022 Translocation of animals for conservation has a long history of successes and failures since humans began intervening with species distributions in the early part of the 20th century.
Cody Schroeder, Kelley Stewart
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Histomorphological comparisons in testicles between Barb horse, donkey and mule
Acta Scientiarum: Animal Sciences, 2023 The mule is a sterile hybrid domestic animal that results from the breeding of a male donkey with a female horse, understanding the reproductive biology of these species is very critical.
Louisa Derouiche +5 more
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Application of Industrial Standard Methods for Detection of Horse- and Donkey-Derived Ingredients for Detecting Mule Meat [PDF]
Shipin Kexue, 2023 Both horse- and donkey-derived ingredients have been detected in mule meat by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) as described in China’s industry standards for detection of horse (SN/T 3730.5-2013) and donkey (SN/T 3730.4-2013) ingredients in food
ZHOU Cang, XIANG Jialin, LIU Libing, WANG Jinfeng, FU Qi, SUN Xiaoxia, WANG Jianchang
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Surgical Treatment and Relative Frequency of Skin Tumors in Domestic Equids: A Retrospective Study [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Veterinary Surgery, 2023 The purposes of the present study were to report the relative frequency, to compare skin neoplastic diseases diagnosed in horses, donkeys, and mules in a referral hospital population, and to evaluate the outcome of surgical intervention in the treatment ...
Farid Yadollahi +2 more
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