«Deer - like species: Extinct
cervid species remains discovered in Barcelona.»
The new sequence data have been deposited in public databases, and are freely available for use by other researchers in further studies
of cervid phylogeny.
Dr. Krysten Schuler will be presenting a lecture on the topic of chronic wasting disease and P. tenuis
in cervids.
The journal of the French Academy of Sciences Comptes Rendus Palevol has just released the discovery of remains assigned to an
extinct cervid species first recorded in the Iberian Peninsula.
Phylogeny of wapiti, red deer, sika deer, and other North
American cervids as determined from mitochondrial DNA.
«Molecular data were already available for 46 of the 55
living cervid species,» says Heckeberg.
Moreover, the finding enables to confirm that Haploidoceros mediterraneus co-lived with
other cervids, such as the fallow deer or the red deer, and that it became extinct due to the climate changes produced at the beginning of the last ice period.
Antlers morphology is a key feature to differentiate
between cervid species.
The finding certifies that Haploidoceros mediterraneus was a
common cervid on both sides of the Pyrenees and that its origin might be the Iberian Peninsula.
She enjoys all aspects of veterinary practice including small and large animal medicine and surgery, and
also cervid medicine.
Category II animal species examples: food and fiber animal species (cow, pig, sheep, goat, all ruminant), horse (mule, ass, pony, zebra), all bird species and poultry, farm - raised aquatic animal species, livestock species (bison,
captive cervid, llama, alpaca, antelope, other hoofed animal), zoo animals that can transmit exotic animal diseases to livestock.
However, in spite of much work, the phylogeny
of cervids has not yet been fully elucidated.
Analysis of partial nucleotide sequences has enabled the team to refine our picture of the evolutionary history of
cervids.
«Our aim was to complement this dataset and place the newly sequenced species in
the cervid family tree.»
Reindeer, however, are the most gregarious of
cervids, and the three sick individuals in Nordfjella could easily have spread prions.
Many species of
cervids are susceptible, including elk, moose, and several kinds of deer.
Serologic data show that a significant number of feral pigs, bears, and
cervids are exposed to T. gondii.