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The Role of Mammalian Reservoir Hosts in Tick-Borne Flavivirus Biology

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2018
Small-to-medium sized mammals and large animals are lucrative sources of blood meals for ixodid ticks that transmit life-threatening tick-borne flaviviruses (TBFVs).
Luwanika Mlera, Marshall E. Bloom
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Various small mammal hosts are involved in the transmission cycle of zoonotic Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Southeastern Canada

Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is a tick-borne disease emerging in North America, caused by the zoonotic variant Ap-ha (human active) of the bacterium Anaplasma phagocytophilum.
Raphaëlle Audet-Legault, Cécile Aenishaenslin, Geneviève Baron, Heather Coatsworth, Marion Desmarchelier, Vanessa Gabriele-Rivet, Patrick A․ Leighton, Jérôme Pelletier, Jean-Philippe Rocheleau, Catherine Bouchard   +9 more
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Novel Focus of Sin Nombre Virus in Peromyscus eremicus Mice, Death Valley National Park, California, USA

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2018
The deer mouse (Peromyscus maniculatus) is the primary reservoir for Sin Nombre virus (SNV) in the western United States. Rodent surveillance for hantavirus in Death Valley National Park, California, USA, revealed cactus mice (P.
Joseph E. Burns, Marco E. Metzger, Sharon Messenger, Curtis L. Fritz, Inger-Marie E. Vilcins, Barryett Enge, Lawrence R. Bronson, Vicki L. Kramer, Renjie Hu   +8 more
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The genetic basis and fitness consequences of sperm midpiece size in deer mice

Nature Communications, 2016
Across species there are large changes in sperm morphology, yet how and why is unclear. Here, the authors show in Peromyscus mice, that the sperm midpiece length influences swimming speed and male fertility, and is regulated by cell-type specific ...
Heidi S. Fisher, Emily Jacobs-Palmer, Jean-Marc Lassance, Hopi E. Hoekstra   +3 more
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Predation of nestling house finches (Haemorhous mexicanus) by a dusky rattlesnake, Crotalus aquilus, in Hidalgo, Mexico

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2015
For the first time, a case of predation on a Haemorhous mexicanus nest by the dusky rattlesnake Crotalus aquilus is presented. The phenomenon of gluttony by this rattlesnake, which may have caused the death of the snake is also documented; since it had ...
Fanny Rebón-Gallardo, Oscar Flores-Villela, David R. Ortíz-Ramírez   +2 more
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Peromyscus melanurus

, 2017
264. Black-tailed Deermouse Peromyscus melanurus French: Péromyscus a queue noire / German: Schwarzschwanz-Hirschmaus / Spanish: Raton ciervo de cola negra Other common names: Black-tailed Mouse Taxonomy. Peromyscus megalops melanurus Osgood, 1909, “Pluma, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier, Thomas E. Lacher, Jr   +2 more
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peromyscus photos

, 2019
Observations of Peromyscus leucopus activity timing from motion-activated cameras. Cameras were deployed for 6 one-week sessions in spring, summer, and fall of 2017, in plots invaded by buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica) or plots with buckthorn ...
Orrock, John, Peter Guiden (6471125), Guiden, Peter, John Orrock (6471128)   +3 more
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A new species of Sigmodontinae (Rodentia) from the late Hemphillian of central Mexico, and comments on the possible radiation of this group

Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas, 2019
The Sigmodontinae subfamily represents one of the most diverse groups of mammals in the world; this rodent group evolved in the open and arid ecosystems of the Miocene of North America and was the most successful legion of mammals in the Great American ...
Adolfo Pacheco-Castro, Oscar Carranza-Castañeda, Eduardo Jiménez-Hidalgo   +2 more
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Peromyscus Gloger 1841

, 1982
Peromyscus Gloger, 1841. Gem. Hand. Hilfs. Nat., 1:95. REVIEWED BY: S. Anderson (SA); W. Caire (WC); R. P. Canham (RPC); M. D. Carleton (MDC); L. N. Carraway (LNC); D. G. Huckaby (DGH); C. W. Kilpatrick (CWK); T. E. Lawlor (TL); R. H.
Kenneth E. Kinman, James H. Honacki, James W. Koeppl   +2 more
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Biosystematics and Life Histories of the PEROMYSCUS GUARDIA Group of Mice and PEROMYSCUS EREMICUS (Rodentia: Cricetidae) [PDF]

, 1966
The purpose of this project was to investigate the taxonomic relationship and the biology of Peromyscus eremicus, and the Peromyscus guardia group of mice from islands in the Gulf of California.
Brand, Leonard R.
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