Elucidating genetic influences on bison growth and body composition is of interest, not only because bison are important for historical, cultural and agricultural reasons, but also because their unusual population history makes them valuable models for finding influential loci in both domestic cattle and humans. We tested for trait loci associated with body weight, height, and bison mass index;...

Mapping habitat selection by threatened species provides critical information for conservation planning. For reintroduced populations, understanding is also necessary to predict dispersal and inform of new reintroduction sites. Efforts restore bison Bison the boreal forest hinge on persistence geographically isolated populations that occupy diverse landscapes, many selected habitats are unknown...

Article history: Determining how organis Received 18 July 2008 Received in revised form 30 September 2008 Accepted 12 October 2008

Bison from Yellowstone National Park (YNP) have an important genetic history. As one of the few wild herds bison with no evidence cattle DNA introgression and a large enough population to maintain diversity, they are considered conservation priority for species. Unfortunately, there is high prevalence zoonotic disease brucellosis in herd. Part management strategy controlling herd size YNP remov...

Prevalence of disease in wildlife populations, which is necessary for developing disease models and conducting epidemiologic analyses, is often understudied. Laboratory tests used to screen for diseases in wildlife populations often are validated only for domestic animals. Consequently, the use of these tests for wildlife populations may lead to inaccurate estimates of disease prevalence. We de...

Mitochondrial sequences are widely used for species identification and for studying phylogenetic relationships among closely related species or populations of the same species. However, many studies of mammals have shown that the maternal history of the mitochondrial genome can be discordant with the true evolutionary history of the taxa. In such cases, the analyses of multiple nuclear genes ca...

When simulating full-disc helioseismic data, instrumental noise has traditionally been treated as time-independent. However, in reality, instrumental noise will often vary to some degree over time due to line of sight velocity variations and possibly degrading hardware. Here we present a new technique for simulating Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network (BiSON) helioseismic data with a more rea...

This paper describes a multi-scale modeling approach to compute the large-strain deformation of zirconium alloy cladding, which is of interest to the study of fuel rod behaviors in transient and accident conditions. A Visco-Plastic Self-Consistent (VPSC) polycrystal plasticity model representing polycrystals by weighted orientations of single crystals has been implemented as the constitutive la...

Specific chewing lice from European bison and some selected species of common European ungulate mammals – cattle, horses, goats, roe deer, red deer, were examined. The faunistic research was on four species of chewing lice, including Bisonicola sedecimdecembrii from European bison (prevalence – 46%, mean intensity – 11 specimens), Bovicola bovis from cattle (29%, 5), Bovicola caprae from goat (...