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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"cervids"”.
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Timing recombinant prion protein conversion as a measure of prion activity in chronic wasting disease
… (CWD) is a fatal neurological disease affecting cervids caused by prions. Infected cervids shed the CWD prion in bodily fluids and excrement, contaminating the environment and creating an agricultural and ecological calamity. Preclinical antemortem CWD testing method is demanded by CWD risk …
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Investigating genetic vulnerability to chronic wasting disease in endangered cervid taxa
… background and current status of CWD in cervids. In Chapter 2, I assess two white-tailed deer subspecies (Odocoileus virginianus clavium & O. v. leucurus) listed under the Endangered Species Act, to assess the potential vulnerability to the populations if exposed to CWD. CWD has been …
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Exploring Novel Immunodiagnostics for Prion Disease
… in humans, Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in cervids, and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle. These diseases occur when the normal cellular prion protein (PrPC) misfolds, producing the infectious isoform PrPSc,which can readily self propagate with no nucleic acid intermediate. …
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A Systematic and Taphonomic Analysis of Late Pleistocene Cervid Remains and Isotopic Paleoecology of Herbivores from Guy Wilson Cave, Southern Appalachians, Tennessee
… of cervid material, 2) taphonomic analysis of cervids with a focus on carnivore utilization, and 3) carbon isotopes from cervid and herbivore tooth enamel (δ<sup>13</sup>C). Systematic identification reveals that there are at least three cervid species in the cave fauna based on fossil remains: …
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Soil PH and clay content associated with chronic wasting disease in white-tailed deer in northern Illinois
… (CWD) which is a prion disease that infects cervids through both direct contact with infected animals and contact with contaminated environments. I built a boosted regression tree model that accurately predicted (AUC = 0.954) the probability of CWD presence in northern Illinois based on soil …
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Characterizing U.S. Agency Approaches to Cervid Carcass Disposal in the Context of Chronic Wasting Disease Management: A Multi-State, Mixed-Methods Analysis
… of host tissues, the carcasses of CWD-infected cervids have been recognized as a potential source for ongoing transmission. Accordingly, efforts that help limit the abundance and accessibility of potentially infected carcasses on the landscape have been prioritized, with several disposal methods …
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A Zooarchaeological Analysis of Hole-in-the-Wall Canyon (45KT12) and French Rapids (45KT13) Sites: Ginkgo State Park, Washington
… most ubiquitous fauna being salmonids, leporids, cervids, bovids, and Western Pearlshell mussel. While differences in excavation methods may have resulted in slight differences in faunal assemblages between those excavated in the 1950s and 1960s, and those excavated more recently; the cultural …
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Habitat Selection and Range Overlap of Moose and White-tailed Deer in the Boreal Plains of Saskatchewan
… help limit disease expansion and conserve native cervids. In conclusion, anthropogenic disturbance is promoting seasonal niche overlap between moose and white-tailed deer, creating the potential for apparent competition via shared predators and pathogens. Re-evaluating current land management …
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Ecological insight into three neotropical deer species: A study of spatial and diel distributions of white-tailed, Central American red brocket, and Yucatan brown brocket deer in northern Belize, Central America
… and caution that managing these sympatric cervids as ecologically interchangeable, risks overlooking the species most vulnerable to ongoing land-use change.
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Using spatial methods to analyse anthropogenic predation risk and movement ecology of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Hunting has been used as a central tool by wildlife managers to maintain populations of game species, however, we still lack a good understanding of exactly how hunting influences deer biology. Technological advances in GPS data over the last two decades now enable us to perform more detailed …
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Landscape genetics and CWD in white-tailed deer
… disease is an infectious prion encephalopathy in cervids that is endemic to Colorado and Wyoming but has spread across the US within the last decade. Quantifying white-tailed deer movement and population structure in infected areas can facilitate predictions of CWD spread via deer dispersal. We …