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Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Prion Gene Variation Are Consistent With a Response to Chronic Wasting Disease‐Induced Selection in Wild White‐Tailed Deer [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) poses a threat to cervids and is increasingly prevalent throughout North America. Prion protein gene (PRNP) variation may confer some degree of genetic resilience, creating an impetus to examine changes in allelic variation ...
Christine M. Bubac, Ty Russell, Debbie McKenzie, Mark C. Ball, Margo J. Pybus, David W. Coltman, Catherine I. Cullingham   +6 more
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A simple genetic method to distinguish mule deer and bighorn sheep fecal pellets and its application to detecting bighorn sheep colonization events in California

California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2023
Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) habitat frequently is geographically discontinuous and the metapopulation model fits this species well. Consequently, extinction-colonization dynamics are important and need to be monitored.
John Wehausen
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Nutritional-Landscape Models Link Habitat Use to Condition of Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus)

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
In heterogeneous landscapes, large herbivores employ plastic behavioral strategies to buffer themselves against negative effects of environmental variation on fitness.
Jennifer L. Merems, Lisa A. Shipley, Taal Levi, Joel Ruprecht, Darren A. Clark, Michael J. Wisdom, Nathan J. Jackson, Kelley M. Stewart, Ryan A. Long   +8 more
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Demodicosis in a Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) from Saskatchewan, Canada [PDF]

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2007
Infestation of deer with Demodex spp. mites has been described in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and in Columbian black-tailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus columbianus) in North America, as well as in four species of deer in Europe. We describe Demodex sp.
Marie-Line, Gentes, Heather, Proctor, Gary, Wobeser   +2 more
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Infectious Disease and Grouping Patterns in Mule Deer. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Infectious disease dynamics are determined, to a great extent, by the social structure of the host. We evaluated sociality, or the tendency to form groups, in Rocky Mountain mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus hemionus) from a chronic wasting disease (CWD ...
María Fernanda Mejía Salazar, Cheryl Waldner, Joseph Stookey, Trent K Bollinger   +3 more
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A gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of American deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling

ZooKeys, 2017
The taxonomy of American deer has been established almost entirely on the basis of morphological data and without the use of explicit phylogenetic methods; hence, phylogenetic analyses including data for all of the currently recognized species, even if ...
Eliécer E. Gutiérrez, Kristofer M. Helgen, Molly M. McDonough, Franziska Bauer, Melissa T.R. Hawkins, Luis A. Escobedo-Morales, Bruce D. Patterson, Jesus E. Maldonado   +7 more
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Canine detection of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in laboratory and field settings

Prion, 2023
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy that affects both free-ranging and farmed cervid species, including mule deer, white-tailed deer, and elk (Odocoileus hemionus, Odocoileus virginianus, and Cervus canadensis)
Amritha Mallikarjun, Ben Swartz, Sarah A. Kane, Michelle Gibison, Isabella Wilson, Amanda Collins, Madison B. Moore, Ila Charendoff, Julie Ellis, Lisa A. Murphy, Tracy Nichols, Cynthia M. Otto   +11 more
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Desert Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus crooki

, 2005
Photograph of a Desert Mule Deer, Odocoileus hemionus crooki, taken at Davis Mountains State Park.
Belden, Dreanna L.
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Association mapping of genetic risk factors for chronic wasting disease in wild deer

Evolutionary Applications, 2013
Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy affecting North American cervids. We assessed the feasibility of association mapping CWD genetic risk factors in wild white‐tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and mule ...
Tomomi Matsumoto, Michael D. Samuel, Trent Bollinger, Margo Pybus, David W. Coltman   +4 more
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Unintended consequences of species translocations: changes in distribution and habitat selection of mule deer following introduction of elk

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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