| yersiniosis in free-ranging muskoxen on banks island, northwest territories, canada. | sixty-seven muskox (ovibos moschatus) carcasses, 53 skeletal remains and two sick muskoxen were seen during an aerial survey of the thomsen river region, northern banks island, northwest territories, canada in late july 1986. complete necropsies were performed on 29 muskoxen estimated to have died within the previous 3 to 5 days. twenty were diagnosed with acute yersiniosis due to yersinia pseudotuberculosis serotype 1b and were in excellent body condition. a diagnosis could not be made on seven ... | 1991 | 1758017 |
| some helminth parasites from the small intestine of free-ranging muskoxen ovibos moschatus (zimmermann) of devon and ellesmere islands, northwest territories. | | 1980 | 7363187 |
| a perspective on forage production in canada. | over the past decade, the cattle industry has experienced practically a full circle. with the promising beef prices in the early 1970s, with the glut of grain and a generous assist from government incentive programs, the forage acreage and cattle population have increased at a record rate. by 1974, the tide began to turn - grain prices went up sharply and beef prices became sluggish - and by 1976 a major crisis faced the producers. the cattle industry which had been developing on a cheap grain e ... | 1980 | 7363269 |
| prevalence of toxoplasma gondii antibodies in muskox (ovibos moschatus) sera from northern canada. | prevalence of antibodies to toxoplasma gondii was determined in 203 muskoxen (ovibos moschatus) from 3 geographically distinct areas of northern canada (near the hamlets of kugluktuk and cambridge bay, nunavut and holman, northwest territories) by the modified agglutination test (mat). antibodies were found in 13 (6.4%) of 203 animals with mat titers of 1:25 in 2, 1:50 in 7, 1:200 in 2, 1:400 in 1, and 1:800 in 1. the 4 muskoxen with mat titers > or =1:200 were adult females and were among 10 an ... | 2000 | 10958480 |
| muskox lungworm (umingmakstrongylus pallikuukensis) does not establish in experimentally exposed thinhorn sheep (ovis dalli). | muskoxen (ovibos moschlatus moschatus) on the northwestern mainland of nunavut and northwest territories, canada, are infected with the protostrongylid lungworm, umingmaksrongylus pallikuuhkensis. the geographic range of this muskox population is expanding to the south and west, and it is anticipated that these animals will eventually become sympatric with dall's sheep (ovis dalli dalli) in the mackenzie and richardson mountains. to address the concern of wildlife managers that u. pallikulkensis ... | 2004 | 15362818 |