To examine the occurrence and genotype distribution of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in cervids, 615 fecal samples were collected from red deer (Cervus elaphus) and sika deer (Cervus nippon) on 10 different farms in Henan and Jilin Province. Enterocytozoon bieneusi was identified and genotyped with a nested PCR analysis of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of the rRNA genes, showing an ave...

There is increasing archaeological evidence that deer were being systematically cropped or “ranched” much earlier than has been previously supposed. In the Mediterranean region, fallow deer (Dama danm dama), made a sudden appearance on several islands at the same time as sheep, goats and pigs, and subsequently their bones make up 70 percent of those found at Neolithic sites between 6000 and 200...

Extreme climatic events, such as hurricanes, may profoundly affect herbivore population dynamics and habitat use by returning tracts of mature forest to early seral stages where food and cover resources rapidly develop. Modifications of habitat use by roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) following hurricane Lothar have been demonstrated in a French forest, and it has been suggested that the combinati...

Deer antlers are costly structures subjected to directional sexual selection that may be sensitive to heterozygosity. However, a relationship between heterozygosity and antler development has only been found for select protein-coding loci and MHC genes in one deer species (the white-tailed deer Odocoileus virginianus). Here, we study the relationship between multilocus heterozygosity at 11 micr...

Studying the coexistence mechanisms of sympatric wildlife helps to shed light on why earth has so many different species. When ungulates share ranges, food and habitat requirements may partially or fully overlap. Therefore, aim this study was determine how limited resources. Carcasses 27 adult blue sheep ( Pseudois nayaur ) three red deer Cervus elaphus alxaicus were collected in Helan Mountain...

A new dermal filarioid nematode, collected from Cervus nippon nippon (sika deer) on Kyushu Island, Japan, showed close affinities between the genera Cutifilaria and Mansonella (Onchocercidae: Onchocercinae): no buccal capsule, esophagus reduced to a thin fibrous tube, and female tail with four lappets. We propose Cutifilaria as a subgenus of Mansonella. Cutifilaria was distinguished from the fi...

This study describes milk production and milk composition of Iberian red deer (Cervus elaphus hispanicus) females (hinds) and the effect of calving date and BW change of hinds by milking over 34 wk. All hinds produced milk throughout the 34-wk study period, well over the standard lactation period. Total milk yield was 224.1 +/- 21.1 L, and daily production was 0.91 +/- 0.06 L. Milk yield decrea...

The interactions between host individual, host population, and environmental factors modulate parasite abundance in a given host population. Since adult exophilic ticks are highly aggregated in red deer (Cervus elaphus) and this ungulate exhibits significant sexual size dimorphism, life history traits and segregation, we hypothesized that tick parasitism on males and hinds would be differential...

The aim of the present study was to identify and assess determinants content Ca, Mg, Zn, Fe, Cd, Pb in longissimus lumborum (LL) semimembranosus (SM) muscles fallow deer red reared organic system. concentrations 6 elements (Ca, Pb) meat produced system Poland were analyzed with use inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. animals, i.e. 12 ca. 2- 3-year-old (Dama dama) 3- 4-year-old (Cervus...