The golden jackal Canis aureus is spreading throughout Europe and settling in countries where it has never been found before. Understanding its trophic ecology increasingly important as colonises new areas ecosystems. This paper aims to review the diet studies that have performed on provide a complete overview of food intake, feeding behaviour strategy. Golden jackals were eat mainly small mamm...

Viruses that affect lagomorphs have decades of reported history spillover events. One these viruses is the causative agent so-called rabbit or ‘lagomorph’ haemorrhagic disease (e.g. Lagovirus europaeus/GI.1 and L. europaeus/GI.2). In particular, europaeus/GI.2 has shown a great capacity to recombine with existing lagoviruses. fact, it replaced former GI.1 genotype in wild, recently, an increase...

Due to their global distribution, invasive history, and unique characteristics, European rabbits are recognizable almost anywhere on our planet. Although they members of a much larger group living extinct mammals [Mammalia, Lagomorpha (rabbits, hares, pikas)], the is often characterized by several well-known genera (e.g., Oryctolagus , Sylvilagus Lepus Ochotona ). This representation does not c...

Abstract Treponema paraluisleporidarum infects both rabbits (ecovar Cuniculus) and hares Lepus). While the occurrence of bacterium has previously been reported for European brown ( Lepus europaeus ) domestic Oryctolagus cuniculus f. domestica ), there are no data available that report infection in context. We tested a total 1,995 serum samples 287 genital swabs from opportunistically sampled ; ...

Lagomorpha is a clade of herbivorous mammals nested within Euarchontoglires, one the major placental groups represented today. It comprises two extant families with markedly different body plans: long-eared and long-limbed Leporidae (hares rabbits) short-eared short-limbed Ochotonidae (pikas). These lagomorph lineages diverged probably during latest Eocene/early Oligocene, but it unclear whethe...

Rodentia (e.g., mice, rats, dormice, squirrels, and guinea pigs) and Lagomorpha (e.g., rabbits, hares, and pikas) are usually grouped into the Glires. Status of this controversial superorder has been evaluated using morphology, paleontology, and mitochondrial plus nuclear DNA sequences. This growing corpus of data has been favoring the monophyly of Glires. Recently, Misawa and Janke [Mol. Phylo...

www.exoticdvm.com EXOTIC VOLUME 6.6 D V M 27 Bilateral orchiectomy from an abdominal approach is feasible in all small mammal species having an open vaginal process (inguinal canal). This technique also has been described in rabbits. For better comprehension of the proper techniques for neutering rodents, it may be useful to review some anatomical features. Because the inguinal canal of lagomor...

Brain size scales as different functions of its number of neurons across mammalian orders such as rodents, primates, and insectivores. In rodents, we have previously shown that, across a sample of 6 species, from mouse to capybara, the cerebral cortex, cerebellum and the remaining brain structures increase in size faster than they gain neurons, with an accompanying decrease in neuronal density ...

The UGT1 locus is felt to be highly conserved between species, as is evident from the characterization of the locus in rodents and humans. In rabbits, cDNAs encoding proteins homologous to human UGT1A4, UGT1A6, and UGT1A7 have previously been identified. Here we demonstrate by Southern blot analysis, using exon 1 divergent 5' segments from rabbit UGT1A4 and UGT1A6 cDNAs, the existence of a clus...