Coyotes Canis latrans have expanded their geographic range by 40% in the last 120 years, raising questions about ecological impacts newly colonised areas. Despite a wealth of local knowledge on coyote diet North America, we little information how and why might vary throughout species' range. We conducted first rangewide meta-analysis investigating ecoregion, mass, environmental conditions, pres...

Palaeolagus , a late Eocene to early Miocene North American lagomorph genus, represented by numerous and well-preserved specimens, has been long considered basal leporid, although it is currently understood as stem lagomorph. Based on micro-computed tomography (?CT) data 3D reconstructions, here we present the first description of intracranial structures nasal auditory regions complete skull ha...

CE Incisor malocclusion is common in rabbits. If this condition occurs as an isolated entity at an early age, it probably has a genetic origin. Incisor malocclusion in older animals is usually secondary to, or occurs concomitantly with, premolar–molar malocclusion. Therefore, patients with incisor malocclusion should always receive a comprehensive oral examination. Incisor–premolar–molar malocc...

Leishmaniasis, caused by Leishmania infantum, is a vector-borne zoonotic disease that is endemic to the Mediterranean basin. The potential of rabbits and hares to serve as competent reservoirs for the disease has recently been demonstrated, although assessment of the importance of their role on disease dynamics is hampered by the absence of quantitative knowledge on the accuracy of diagnostic t...

Background There are several obstacles to effective cancer immunotherapy including the heterogenic immune profile and state of tumor microenvironment. Oncolytic virotherapy provides an opportunity overcome some these limitations through high viral replication expression therapeutic transgenes (TGs) within tissue. Myxoma virus (MYXV) belongs family Poxviridae represents a potent oncolytic safe p...

The life cycle of the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis primarily involves canids and small mammals (rodents, lagomorphs) as definitive and intermediate hosts, respectively. Several surveys have identified marked temporal and geographical variations at different scales in the parasite's prevalence in both types of hosts, suggesting variations in the biological and ecological factors that cont...

To a large extent, the mutual affinities of the mammalian orders continue to puzzle systematists, even though comparative anatomy and amino acid sequencing offer a massive data base from which these relationships could potentially be adduced. In the present paper the consistency index--the number of character states less the number of characters in a data set, divided by the total number of cha...