Abstract The genetic structure of a population can provide important insights into animal movements at varying geographical scales. Individual and social behaviors, such as philopatry dispersal, affect patterns relatedness, age sex structure, shaping the local populations. However, these fine scale may not be detected within broader structure. Using SNP genotyping for pairwise relatedness estim...

This study was carried out to determine the shape of fox skull by geometric morphometric method according gender. For this purpose, four female and nine male skulls were used. The photographed from dorsal lateral aspects. Eleven homologous landmarks on aspect 19 marked photographs skull. Principal component analysis Relative warp performed coordinate values images. In addition, MorphoJ software...

Context Predation of layer chickens is a major issue for free-range egg producers. Using livestock guardian dogs (LGD) to protect free-ranging poultry possible option producers, although there little published literature regarding how the chickens. Aims This case study was conducted at production farm in Western Australia, where red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) were common predator prior introducing M...

A key defining feature of a species' niche and ecological roles is its diet (Pocheville 2015). What an animal species eats influences trophic position, how it moves around, which other interacts with, among many behaviours. While diets are flexible, predators have evolved to forage optimally on certain prey types or (Hayward et al. 2011, 2016). The mechanisms that determine optimal foraging beh...

Microarray data examination is a relatively new technology that intends to determine the proper treatment for various diseases and precise medical diagnosis by analyzing massive number of genes in experimental conditions. The conventional classification techniques suffer from overfitting high dimensionality gene expression data. Therefore, feature (gene) selection approach plays vital role hand...

To control the Arctic variant of rabies virus in red foxes, 332,257 bait doses containing live, attenuated Evelyn-Rokitnicki-Abelseth rabies vaccine were distributed in greater metropolitan Toronto during 1989-1999. Human and pet contact with bait was minimal, and no adverse reactions to the vaccine were noted. Significantly fewer rabid foxes were found during the 17 years after fox baiting (5 ...