Systematic relationships of southern populations of short-tailed shrews (genus Blarina) are assessed on the basis of univariate and multivariate statistics. Populations are separated into two phena; southwestern short-tailed shrews are significantly larger morphometrically than southeastern forms. The two phena apparently represent distinct species. The name Blarina hylophaga is available for s...

Melanopsin confers photosensitivity to a subset of retinal ganglion cells and is responsible for many non-image-forming tasks, like the detection of light for circadian entrainment. Recently, two melanopsin genes, Opn4m and Opn4x, were described in non-mammalian vertebrates. However, only one form, Opn4m, has been described in the mammals, although studies to date have been limited to the place...

Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) viruses are pestiviruses that have been isolated from domestic and wild ruminants. There is serologic evidence of pestiviral infection in more than 40 species of free-range and captive mammals. Vertical transmission can produce persistently infected animals that are immunotolerant to the infecting strain of Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) and shed virus throughout...

The meningeal worm (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) was found in 22 (7%) of 300 white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) (257 adults, 43 fawns) examined from Nebraska (USA) during November 1996. None of 53 mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) (47 adults and 6 fawns) examined were infected. Twenty-two white-tailed deer from 18 counties in eastern Nebraska were infected with Parelaphostrongylus tenuis. ...

The t complex on chromosome 17 of the house mouse is an exceptional model for studying the genetic control of transmission ratio, gametogenesis, and embryogenesis. Partial haplotypes derived through rare recombination between a t haplotype and its wild-type homolog have been essential in the genetic analysis of these various properties of the t complex. A new partial t haplotype, which was deri...

Rodent species have active role in transmission of serious pathogens and are reservoir for many zoonotic diseases, so their ectoparasitic fauna become of special concern. A survey of ectoparasites occurring on Calomyscus elburzensis was carried out from April through September 2014 in Khaje Morada rocky hillsides region situated in the southeast of Mashhad, Iran. A total of 48 Goodwin’s brush-t...

An unusually large number of cases of Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) were observed in United States cattle and white-tailed deer in the summer and fall of 2012. USDA APHIS Veterinary Services area offices were asked to report on foreign animal disease investigations and state diagnostic laboratory submissions which resulted in a diagnosis of EHD based on positive PCR results. EHD was repor...

Mitogen- and antigen-induced interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) responses of peripheral blood leucocytes from cervids were evaluated by a commercial whole-blood assay. The assay was applied to Mycobacterium bovis-infected white-tailed deer and reindeer, M bovis BCG-vaccinated white-tailed deer and elk, and unvaccinated, uninfected white-tailed deer, fallow deer, elk and reindeer. The responses of the...

The interest toward the classification of time series has recently received a lot of contributions (see Piccolo, 2007, for a review). Most of these studies are devoted to capture the structure of the mean of the process hypothesized as generator of the data, whereas little attention has been devoted to the variance. When dealing with heteroskedastic time series, in which the (conditional) varia...

The main purpose of this paper is to produce a geometric realization for the tempered modules of the affine Hecke algebra of type C (1) n with arbitrary, non-root of unity, unequal parameters, using the exotic DeligneLanglands correspondence ([Ka08a]). Our classification has several applications to the Weyl group module structure of the tempered Hecke algebra modules. In particular, we provide ...