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Winter Is Coming: Conserving Body Protein in Female Reindeer, Caribou, and Muskoxen

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Northern ungulates undergo pregnancy in winter when food supplies are low. Consequently, females employ a capital breeding strategy that relies upon maternal body stores of energy and protein for fetal growth. We studied captive female reindeer (Rangifer
Perry S. Barboza   +7 more
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Inferring the rules of social interaction in migrating caribou [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Social interactions are a significant factor that influence the decision-making of species ranging from humans to bacteria. In the context of animal migration, social interactions may lead to improved decision-making, greater ability to respond to ...
Angohiatok, Ryan J.   +5 more
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Infection with brainworm (Elaphostrongylus rangiferi) in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus ssp.) in Fennoscandia

open access: yesActa Veterinaria Scandinavica, 2020
Sami reindeer herders have considerable traditional knowledge about a neurological reindeer disease resembling elaphostrongylosis, but the causative agent was not identified prior to the description of the brainworm Elaphostrongylus rangiferi in Russia ...
R. Davidson   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nikander's Dissertation

open access: yesRangifer, 1991
Sven Nikander defended his D.Med.Vet. thesis «Studies on the exocrine ducts of the pancreas and the liver in reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus L)» at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Helsinki, Finland on 10 June 1991.
Sven Skjenneberg (ed.)
doaj   +1 more source

Radiocarbon dates from the Oxford AMS system: archaeometry datelist 35 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This is the 35th list of AMS radiocarbon determinations measured at the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU). Amongst some of the sites included here are the latest series of determinations from the key sites of Abydos, El Mirón, Ban Chiang, Grotte
Baker, D.   +5 more
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Päivi Soppela; Fats as indicators of physiological constraints in newborn and young reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus L.)

open access: yesRangifer, 2000
Päivi Soppela presented her PhD-thesis "Fats as indicators of physiological constraints in newborn and young reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus L.)" for public discussion at the Faculty of Science, University of Oulu on June 22nd, 2000.
Rolf Egil Haugerud (ed.)
doaj   +1 more source

Twenty-four hour behaviour patterns and budgets of free-ranging reindeer in winter

open access: yesRangifer, 1989
Activities of free-ranging reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) on the Seward Peninsula, Alaska were studied to determine 24-hour behaviour patterns and budgets in winter.
Williams B. Collins, Thomas S. Smith
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The chromosomes of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)

open access: yesRangifer, 1986
The karyotypes of Rangifer t. tarandus L . and Rangifer t. fennicus Lonnb. have been established. The chromosomes have been stained by several methodes (G-, C-, Qand R-banding, NOR-staining). The chromosome number is 70, N F is 74. The autosomes consist of 33 acrocentric pairs and one submetacentric pair (no. 34).
Ulla Gripenberg, Mauri Nieminen
doaj   +3 more sources

Population dynamics of the Taimyr reindeer population

open access: yesRangifer, 1996
The Taimyr herd of wild reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus L.) is one of the three largest herds of wild Rangifer in the world, and numbered about 600 000 in 1993.
B.M. Pavlov   +2 more
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Rangifer tarandus

open access: yes, 1982
Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758). Syst. Nat., 10th ed„ 1:67. TYPE LOCALITY: Sweden, Alpine Lapland (domesticated stock). DISTRIBUTION: Circumboreal, south to Altai Mtns. (U.S.S.R.), N. Mongolia, Heilungkiang (China) (SW) and Sakhalin Isl.; N. Idaho and Great Lakes region (U.S.A.); most arctic islands.
Honacki, James H.   +2 more
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