Sentences with phrase «wildlife diseases»

The same phenomenon occurs for wildlife diseases as well.

The results illustrate that while great strides in diagnostics have been made over the last decade, wildlife diseases present unique challenges because less is currently known than remains unknown about them.

«It was a major wildlife disease, but today just a few birds are sick,» he says.

Non — native wildlife disease is one of the most significant threats to species conservation worldwide.

Genetic Rescue: Can new genomic tools solve conservation problems such as exotic wildlife diseases and destructive invasive species?

MMF is the brainchild of Steve Bellan, an ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in the epidemiology of wildlife diseases like anthrax, and Juliet Pulliam of the University of Florida, Gainesville.

«Introduction to Population Wildlife Disease Modeling» Workshop was held July 28 and focused on population scale epidemiological models with examples from wildlife diseases in North America.

The increasing emergence of deadly fungal pathogens — including white - nose syndrome in bats, chytridiomycosis (chytrid) in amphibians and SFD in snakes — is of grave concern to wildlife disease experts worldwide.

A new E.U. animal health law, expected next year, could help, says geneticist Matthew Fisher of Imperial College London, who studies wildlife diseases.

What about animal protectionist assertion that trapping is not necessary to mitigate wildlife disease epidemics, such as rabies?

Following my previous post on wildlife diseases, I've been in a fairly multicellular mood.

The eagles, whose symptoms included leg paralysis and tremors, are believed to have contracted the disease by preying on sick or dead water birds called eared grebes that were infected by the West Nile virus, said Leslie McFarlane, Utah wildlife disease coordinator.

A year after a deadly and highly contagious wildlife disease surfaced in Norway, the country is taking action.

Using a case study methodology the workshop focused on some of conservation's major challenges where genetic diagnosis and treatment might prove useful — non-native wildlife diseases and invasive species:

Morris Animal Foundation is committed to finding solutions to plague and other wildlife diseases that impact a wide range of animals.

Finally, TNR research fails to address critical issues such as spillover prédation by cats in adjacent wildland areas, zoonotic and wildlife disease risks, and the health and welfare of feral cats (Castillo and Clarke 2003).

The companies are also working with FWS officials to come up with ways to identify species, not yet in commerce, that might become invasive; this risk assessment could be a stopgap approach to screening out potential wildlife diseases and would «say to the pet trade: «Beware — don't deal with these,»» Meyers says.

Research takes priority, too, with faculty working on more than 450 projects — including wildlife disease prevention, nanotechnology, and genetic engineering — around the world.

Notably, for biting flies (midges in the genus Culicoides, some species of which are vectors of wildlife disease), 80 percent were attracted to the filament lamp, 15 percent to the compact fluorescent and only 2 - 3 percent to each of the two different LED lamps.

Still, some recent outbreaks of livestock / wildlife disease in Montana have invited speculation about climate's role, although without definitive conclusions regarding causation.

Sonia Hernandez, an associate professor of wildlife diseases, imported geckos from Indonesia to study how they respond to antibiotics.

Kilpatrick is a wildlife disease expert whose lab has been working with state and federal wildlife agencies and other partners to track the spread of white - nose syndrome, which was first discovered in New York state in 2006.

In future studies, Salkeld will continue to investigate this question with other human - wildlife diseases, including Lyme disease and Colorado tick fever.

Specifically she investigates how human - induced degradation to the landscape leads to genetic alteration in a species, as well as how this impacts the emergence and prevalence of wildlife diseases.

We tried to keep an open mind but some of the ideas we had — including an aberrant immune reaction — were beyond what we thought is amenable to study in wildlife diseases, given that so much less is known about wildlife biology than human or laboratory animal biology.

If your dog does contract one of these wildlife diseases, immediate treatment is necessary.

«We hope these findings highlight the urgent need to study the connection between environmental changes and wildlife diseases, studies that will lead to better health and protection of at - risk species.

The Department of Veterinary Pathobiology (VTPB) focuses on mechanisms of disease including host / pathogen interactions, ecology of antimicrobial resistance, genetics of disease susceptibility and resistance, wildlife diseases, and conservation genetics.