| blood-feeding of the gerbil flea nosopsyllus laeviceps kuzenkovi (yagubyants), vector of plague in inner mongolia, china. | the gerbil flea nosopsyllus laeviceps (wagner) (siphonaptera: ceratophyllidae) is an important palaearctic vector of enzootic plague among sylvan and campestral rodents. laboratory blood-feeding experiments with the subspecies n.l.kuzenkovi (yagubyants) from inner mongolia, china, using three rodent species including the natural host meriones unguiculatus (milne-edwards), demonstrated a positive relationship between per cent feeding and time allowed for feeding, particularly for female fleas. al ... | 1993 | 8435489 |
| yersinia enterocolitica o9 as a possible barrier against y. pestis in natural plague foci in ningxia, china. | a survey of yersinia spp, as related to plague control, was made in haiyuan of ganning loess plateau plague focus, yanchi of inner mongolia plateau plague focus, and yinchuan city, as a control area, in ningxia, china. in haiyuan, where the main plague reservoir was mongolian ground squirrel (citellus alaschanicus) living in the prairie, y. enterocolitica o9 was frequently isolated from pigs, dogs, rodents living in and around houses, but only rarely from hare and mongolian ground squirrel. in y ... | 2001 | 11116388 |
| study on the ecological distribution of alveolar echinococcus in hulunbeier pasture of inner mongolia, china. | a study on the ecological distribution of alveolar echinococcus was carried out in the hulunbeier pasture of inner mongolia, china during 1998 and 1999. animals examined included wolves (canis lupus), red foxes (vulpes vulpes), sand foxes (vulpes corsac), domestic dogs (canis familiaris), microtus brandti, meriones unguiculatus, citellus dauricus, allactaga sibirica, phodopus sungorus and ochotona daurica. three wolves were found to be infected with e. granulosus. two sand foxes were infected wi ... | 2004 | 15030006 |
| seasonal changes in thermogenesis and body mass in wild mongolian gerbils (meriones unguiculatus). | seasonal adjustments in body mass (bm), nonshivering thermogenesis (nst) and several physiological, hormonal, and biochemical markers were measured in wild-trapped mongolian gerbils (meriones unguiculatus) from inner mongolia, china. sexual differences were detected in bm, nst, brown adipose tissue (bat) mass, and mitochondrial protein content. bm and nst in males were higher in winter (january) and spring (may) than in summer (august), and bm of females was also the highest in winter, but nst r ... | 2007 | 17588796 |
| genetic consequences of group living in mongolian gerbils. | social behavior can shape the local population genetic structure of mammals. group living can increase pairwise genetic relatedness of mammals at a local level but differentiate the genetic structure at a population level through offspring philopatry and nonrandom mating. our study aimed to test the hypothesis that social groups of mongolian gerbils (meriones unguiculatus) would consist of genetically related individuals due to offspring philopatry and would have distinct genetic structures beca ... | 2011 | 21778288 |
| probing the spatial cluster of meriones unguiculatus using the nest flea index based on gis technology. | the nest flea index of meriones unguiculatus is a critical indicator for the prevention and control of plague, which can be used not only to detect the spatial and temporal distributions of meriones unguiculatus, but also to reveal its cluster rule. this study used global spatial autocorrelation and spatial hot spot detection methods to describe the relationship between different years and the autocorrelation coefficient of nest flea indexes; it also used a spatial detection method and gis techn ... | 2016 | 27523306 |
| effects of levonorgestrel-quinestrol (ep-1) treatment on mongolian gerbil wild populations: a case study. | rodent pest population outbreaks occur frequently in grassland ecosystems in northern china. the mongolian gerbil (meriones unguiculatus) is a dominant pest rodent which is distributed across the semi-desert grasslands of inner mongolia, china. in 2009, we studied the contraceptive effect of levonorgestrel-quinestrol (ep-1), concentration 50 ppm, on a wild mongolian gerbil population. the one-off contraceptive treatment was compared with a control group using a semi-monthly live trapping method ... | 2013 | 24020466 |