Publications
| dna evidence that ostertagia gruehneri and ostertagia arctica (nematoda: ostertagiinae) in reindeer from norway and svalbard are conspecific. | dna sequences of its-1 and its-2 of rdna were determined for 16 individual adult males each of ostertagia gruehneri and ostertagia arctica from svalbard reindeer (rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) and eurasian tundra reindeer (r. t. tarandus). each its was virtually identical in o. gruehneri and o. arctica and the three mixed bases detected were shared by both species. our results strongly suggest that o. gruehneri and o. arctica are dimorphic males of the same species. | 2000 | 10779581 |
| resistance to abomasal nematodes and individual genetic variability in reindeer. | resistance to parasites is believed to have a widespread influence on demographic and adaptive processes. in systems where parasites impose a fitness cost on their host, heterozygotes may be selected because they are more resistant to parasites than homozygotes. our objective was to assess the relationships between genomewide individual heterozygosity and abomasal nematode burdens in female svalbard reindeer (rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) after the effects of host age, locality, season, and y ... | 2005 | 16262866 |