The quantitative mechanistic acid-base approach to clinical assessment of acid-base status requires species-specific values for [A]tot (the total concentration of nonvolatile buffers in plasma) and Ka (the effective dissociation constant for weak acids in plasma). The aim of this study was to determine [A]tot and Ka values for plasma in domestic pigeons. Plasma from 12 healthy commercial domest...

The rapid discovery of novel viruses using next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies including DNA-Seq and RNA-Seq, has greatly expanded our understanding of viral diversity in recent years. The timely identification of novel viruses using NGS technologies is also important for us to control emerging infectious diseases caused by novel viruses. In this study, we identified a novel duck coro...

Head crests are important display structures in wild bird species and are also common in domesticated lineages. Many breeds of domestic rock pigeon (Columba livia) have crests of reversed occipital feathers, and this recessive trait is associated with a nonsynonymous coding mutation in the intracellular kinase domain of EphB2 (Ephrin receptor B2). The domestic ringneck dove (Streptopelia risori...

In this study, the information on distribution, biology, morphology, diseases that it transmits and suggestion on pest management strategies of “pigeon fly” Pseudolynchia canariensis (Macquart, 1839) (Diptera: Hippoboscidae) were also discussed. Material of the study P. canariensis were sampled from especially ventilation windows of the roof, and on the rats which was caught by sticky traps in ...

Hanc:iedness is the most obvious aspect of thc laleralization of the human brain, and most studies on cerebral asymmctrics in humans have been concerned with this topic. As a consequence, many experiments dealing with potential functional lateralizations in animals deal with the putative analogue to human handed ness, namely forelimb preferences (Denenberg 1981). These studies indicate that lim...

To understand the epidemiology of Avian paramyxovirus serotype-1 (APMV-1) in pigeons in Japan, phylogenetic analysis was comprehensively conducted based on partial fusion protein gene using isolate from the surveillance of this virus with previously known Japanese pigeon strains. This surveillance was conducted using feces obtained from domestic pigeons collected in 40 prefectures throughout Ja...

Feral pigeons are birds now largely present with naturalized populations all around the world (Lever, 1987). The Rock Dove (Columba livia), which is their ultimate ancestor, was originally present in coastal and inland cliffs of central and western Palearctic and in the northern Ethiopian regions, as well as in those of the Indian subcontinent (Goodwin, 1983). These wild populations gave rise t...