Tips for Successfully Breeding Your MiceMarcel Perret-Gentil, DVM, MS University Veterinarian & Director Laboratory Animal Resources Center The University of Texas at San Antoniomarcel.perret@utsa.eduBreeding Objectives• Maximize pup yield– Meet PI research goals• Maximize quality– ...
Feeding area #1 with small outside access (window opens from outside) the bird feeder setup is placed on top of a plastic folding table for easy clean-up and to prevent field mice and crawly bugs from climbing up and contaminate the food with their droppings and urine. It’s also where ...
Food and reproduction of wild house mice 1. Diet and breeding seasons in various habitats on irrigated cereal farms in New South Wales [vertebrate pests] Global climate change is likely to have an important influence on the phenology, behaviour and population dynamics of many species. We investiga...
Serum MT, FSH, LH, GnRH, and T levels assays Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit (spe- cific for mice; Jianglai Bio., China) was used to determine the serum MT, FSH, LH, GnRH, and T levels in donor and recipient voles. The detection range of the MT, FSH, LH, GnRH...
1. Information needed when pairing animals includes strain/stock of the animal utilizing proper nomenclature, dates of birth for the breeder male and female, and the setup date. Accurate recordkeeping is imperative with breeding colonies. 2. Sex determination of mice and rats is done by comparing...
The color loci of mice—a genetic century. Pigment Cell Res 16: 333–344. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Bilezikjian LM, Corrigan AZ, Blount AL, Chen Y, Vale WW (2001). Regulation and actions of Smad7 in the modulation of activin, inhibin, and transforming growth factor-beta ...
(Lemur catta)13. Experimental tests have further shown the effectiveness of copulatory plugs at securing paternity. The first mating advantage of laboratory mice was nullified when an enzyme critical in the coagulation reaction of their copulatory plugs, Tgm4, was knocked out66. Similar results were...
Their flight was in a high traffic area being within 20 feet of our horse corrals. We placed them on a diet that includes apples, pears, cut grapes, papaya, blue-berries, figs, kiwi, guavas, bananas, frozen mixed vegetables, mice, crickets, wax worms, lizards, grasshoppers, soaked Zu ...
Can predation by invasive mice drive seabird extinctions? cause of extremely poor breeding success for Tristan albatrosses, Diomedea dabbenena (0.27 fledglings/pair), and Atlantic petrels, Pterodroma incerta (0.33)... Wanless, Ross M.,A Angel,Cuthbert, Richard J.,... - 《Biol Lett》 被引量...
There are thought to be currently about 261 million pairs of seabirds, of which penguins might constitute about 30 million, (most of them chinstrap penguins). There are estimated to be over 10 million seabirds in the Canadian Arctic alone (Micelutti et al., 2009). These numbers probably repr...