| novel rumen bacterial diversity in two geographically separated sub-species of reindeer. | svalbard reindeer (rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus) live under austere nutritional conditions on the high-arctic archipelago of svalbard, while semi-domesticated norwegian reindeer (r. tarandus tarandus) migrate between lush coastal summer pastures and inland winter pastures with lichens on mainland norway. svalbard reindeer are known to have high rumen concentrations of cellulolytic bacteria, ranging from 15% of the viable population in summer to 35% in winter, compared to only 2.5% in norwegia ... | 2007 | 17473904 |
| use of moxidectin treatment in the investigation of abomasal nematodiasis in wild reindeer (rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus). | an experiment was conducted to evaluate moxidectin as a tool for understanding the impact of parasitism on wild svalbard reindeer (rangifer tarandus platyrhynchus). adult females were injected subcutaneously with moxidectin at a dose rate of 0-4 mg/kg bodyweight, and groups of animals were culled within its expected period of efficacy (around 14 days) or around 12 or 24 weeks after treatment. moxidectin was effective in eliminating the reindeers' abomasal worm burdens, and although they became r ... | 2000 | 11104041 |