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Ecological effects of fear: How spatiotemporal heterogeneity in predation risk influences mule deer access to forage in a sky‐island system [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Forage availability and predation risk interact to affect habitat use of ungulates across many biomes. Within sky‐island habitats of the Mojave Desert, increased availability of diverse forage and cover may provide ungulates with unique opportunities to ...
Christopher Lowrey, Kathleen M. Longshore, David M. Choate, Jyoteshwar R. Nagol, Joseph Sexton, Daniel Thompson   +5 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 ...
Melia T DeVivo, David R Edmunds, Matthew J Kauffman, Brant A Schumaker, Justin Binfet, Terry J Kreeger, Bryan J Richards, Hermann M Schätzl, Todd E Cornish   +8 more
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Population genomics of free‐ranging Great Plains white‐tailed and mule deer reflects a long history of interspecific hybridization [PDF]

Evolutionary Applications, 2022
Hybridization is a natural process at species‐range boundaries that may variably promote the speciation process or break down species barriers but minimally will influence management outcomes of distinct populations.
Fraser J. Combe, Levi Jaster, Andrew Ricketts, David Haukos, Andrew G. Hope   +4 more
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De novo chromosome-length assembly of the mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) genome [PDF]

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 , Adam M. Taylor , Tabitha A. Hughes , Brock R. McMillan , Randy T. Larsen , Ruqayya Khan , David Weisz , Olga Dudchenko , Erez Lieberman Aiden , Nathaniel B. Edelman , Paul B. Frandsen   +10 more
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Spatiotemporal variation in the fecal microbiota of mule deer is associated with proximate and future measures of host health [PDF]

BMC Veterinary Research, 2021
Background Mule deer rely on fat and protein stored prior to the winter season as an energy source during the winter months when other food sources are sparse.
Hyrum S. Eddington, Courtney Carroll, Randy T. Larsen, Brock R. McMillan, John M. Chaston   +4 more
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Comparative health assessment of urban and non-urban free-ranging mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) in southeastern British Columbia, Canada [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background The provincial wildlife management agency, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development, performed a translocation to control the urban mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus; uMD) overpopulation and ...
Amélie Mathieu, Mark Flint, Patrick M. Stent, Helen M. Schwantje, Thomas E. Wittum   +4 more
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Development of a Novel Mule Deer Genomic Assembly and Species-Diagnostic SNP Panel for Assessing Introgression in Mule Deer, White-Tailed Deer, and Their Interspecific Hybrids [PDF]

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, 2019
Mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) are endemic to a wide variety of habitats in western North America, many of which are shared in sympatry with their closely related sister-species white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), whom they hybridize with in ...
Ty Russell, Catherine Cullingham, Arun Kommadath, Paul Stothard, Allen Herbst, David Coltman   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Experimental SARS-CoV-2 Infection of Elk and Mule Deer [PDF]

Emerging Infectious Diseases
To assess the susceptibility of elk (Cervus canadensis) and mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) to SARS-CoV-2, we performed experimental infections in both species. Elk did not shed infectious virus but mounted low-level serologic responses.
Stephanie M. Porter, Airn E. Hartwig, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Jeffrey M. Marano, J. Jeffrey Root, Angela M. Bosco-Lauth   +5 more
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Drivers of seasonal space use and movements of mule deer in agriculturally modified landscapes of the Great Plains [PDF]

Movement Ecology
Background Understanding how key resources and anthropogenic disturbance influence animal space use and movement is essential for informing management of declining populations.
Kate A. Asmus, Kyle D. Dougherty, Luke Meduna, Todd D. Nordeen, Michael J. Cherry, Thomas R. Stephenson, John F. Benson   +6 more
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Migrating mule deer compensate en route for phenological mismatches. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2023
Billions of animals migrate to track seasonal pulses in resources. Optimally timing migration is a key strategy, yet the ability of animals to compensate for phenological mismatches en route is largely unknown.
Ortega AC, Aikens EO, Merkle JA, Monteith KL, Kauffman MJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +2 more sources