Bioaccumulation of radionuclides in hoofed animals inhabiting the Semipalatinsk Test Site. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 The article assesses the content of radionuclides in hoofed animals inhabiting the Semipalatinsk Test Site by calculation. Hoofed animals' faeces were sampled to determine the content of radionuclides in their diets.
Andrey Panitskiy +5 more
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Rapidly assessing the risks of infectious diseases to wildlife species [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Predicting the likelihood of rare events is increasingly demanded by risk managers. A key challenge is dealing with different types of uncertainty, including epistemic uncertainties (lack of knowledge), stochasticity (inherent randomness) and natural ...
Wendy Beauvais +4 more
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Gut microbiota of the critically endangered Saiga antelope across two wild populations in a year without mass mortality. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 The Saiga are migratory antelopes inhabiting the grasslands of Eurasia. Over the last century, Saiga have been pushed to the brink of extinction by mass mortality events and intense poaching.
Hanski E +7 more
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Distribution, scale, and drivers of mass mortality events in Europe's freshwater bivalves. [PDF]
Conserv BiolAbstract Mass mortality events (MMEs) are decimating populations and compromising key ecosystem functions around the globe. One taxon particularly vulnerable to MMEs is freshwater bivalve mollusks. This group has important ecosystem engineering capacities and includes highly threatened and highly invasive taxa.
Cossey DA +39 more
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Global Ecology and ConservationGut microbiome studies based on fecal samples can non-invasively reflect the survival and health status of endangered species. This study presents the first characterization of the gut microbiome in the semi-wild population of the critically endangered ...
Zhichao Zhou +8 more
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GENETIC STRUCTURE AND GENOME VARIABILITY OF THE SAIGA (SAIGA TATARICA TATARICA)
Ġylym ža̋ne bìlìmThis study is dedicated to the study of the genetics of saiga antelope, a species of antelope whose populations have experienced repeated critical declines in the past. The aim of our work was to identify genetic differences between individual saigas, which is extremely important for the survival of the species and its ability to adapt.This study ...
Vadim Ulyanov +9 more
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The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) in the Quaternary of Ukraine: distribution and morphology
Theriologia UkrainicaThe article analyses the findings of fossils, archaeological sites, and historical literature on the distribution of saigas in Ukraine during the Quaternary period.
Viktoria Smagol +3 more
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The modern state of the European saiga population (Saiga tatarica tatarica): mtDNA, DRB3 MHC gene, and microsatellite diversity [PDF]
Integrative Zoology, 2023 Nadezhda Kashinina +4 more
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PARATUBERCULOSIS IN SAIGA ANTELOPE (SAIGA TATARICA) AND EXPERIMENTAL TRANSMISSION TO DOMESTIC SHEEP [PDF]
Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 1992 Mycobacterium paratuberculosis was isolated in low numbers from the small intestine and associated mesenteric lymph nodes of a saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica) using routine culture techniques in spite of histologic evidence of high numbers of acid-fast bacteria in these tissues.
T. W. Dukes +4 more
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Going back for the future:Incorporating Pleistocene fossil records of saiga antelope into habitat suitability models [PDF]
Journal of Biogeography, Volume 51, Issue 8, Page 1351-1364, August 2024.Aim: Many species have suffered anthropogenic range contraction and no longer occupy all available suitable environmental conditions. This is particularly problematic for the construction of habitat suitability models (HSMs), which assume that a species'
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