| a manipulative field experiment to examine the effect of capillaria hepatica (nematoda) on wild mouse populations in southern australia. | a 12-month manipulative field study of the effect of a liver parasite, capillaria hepatica, on mouse populations (mus domesticus) was conducted in the mallee wheatlands of northwestern victoria. there were 2 untreated and 4 treated sites each consisting of a 16 km2 sampling zone. the parasite was released in september (spring) 1993 into an increasing mouse population which had a medium density (100-250 mice per ha). a third untreated site was monitored from january 1994. a simple but effective b ... | 1996 | 8773526 |
| the genetic structure of escherichia coli populations in feral house mice. | escherichia coli was isolated from feral house mice (mus domesticus) during the course of a mouse plague in the state of victoria, australia. two farms were sampled over a period of 7 months and a total of 447 isolates were collected. the isolates were characterized using the techniques of randomly amplified polymorphic dna and multi-locus enzyme electrophoresis. the mean genetic diversity of this e. coli population (h = 0.24) was found to be substantially lower than the diversity of an e. col p ... | 1997 | 9202479 |
| temporal changes in the frequency of colicinogeny in escherichia coli from house mice. | escherichia coli was isolated from feral house mice (mus domesticus) during the course of a mouse plague in the state of victoria, australia. the isolates were characterized for the production of colicins and their resistance to the co-occurring colicins. of the 447 isolates examined, 59% were found to be colicinogenic. phenotypic and pcr-based genotypic methods were used to determine the types of colicins being produced. colicin e2 was the most common, representing 27% of the colicin-producing ... | 1998 | 9720045 |
| transmission of two australian strains of murine cytomegalovirus (mcmv) in enclosure populations of house mice (mus domesticus). | to control plagues of free-living mice (mus domesticus) in australia, a recombinant murine cytomegalovirus (mcmv) expressing fertility proteins is being developed as an immunocontraceptive agent. real-time quantitative pcr was used to monitor the transmission of two genetically variable field strains of mcmv through mouse populations after 25% of founding mice were infected with the n1 strain, followed by the g4 strain 6 weeks later. pathogen-free wild-derived mice were released into outdoor enc ... | 2005 | 16050517 |
| prevalence of mouse mammary tumor virus (mmtv) in wild house mice (mus musculis) in southeastern australia. | we determined the prevalence of mouse mammary tumor virus (mmtv) in introduced, free-roaming, wild house mice (mus musculus domesticus) [corrected] and compared envelope (env) and long terminal repeat (ltr) nucleotide sequences of viruses from wild mice and other sources. mice were trapped on two occasions, in october (spring) and the following may (autumn) of 2003-2004 in the mallee region of northwestern victoria, australia. animals were assigned to three cohorts (subadult, young, and old adul ... | 2007 | 17984262 |