| genetic variation and population structure of american mink neovison vison from pcb-contaminated and non-contaminated locales in eastern north america. | american mink neovison vison may be particularly vulnerable to toxicities of persistent contaminants such as pcbs because of their aquatic-based diet, position near the top of the food web, and small deme sizes. furthermore, ranched mink are sensitive to reproductive toxicities of fish diets from pcb-polluted sites. the upper hudson river is highly contaminated with pcbs and previous studies have shown elevated hepatic burdens of total and coplanar pcbs in mink collected near the river compared ... | 2015 | 26374638 |
| first u.s. record of the hard tick ixodes (pholeoixodes) gregsoni lindquist, wu, and redner. | ixodes (pholeoixodes) gregsoni lindquist, wu, and redner, a species of hard tick described in 1999 in canada, was recovered from a harvested fisher (martes pennanti erxleben) and a domestic cat (felis silvestris catus ragni and randi) in vermont in 2001 and from harvested mink (mustela vison schreber) in maine in 2003. these samples are the first records of this species within the united states. although knowledge of this tick's natural history and distribution are still preliminary, these recor ... | 2007 | 17626374 |
| parasitism of mustelids by ixodid ticks (acari: ixodidae), maine and new hampshire, u.s.a. | ticks collected from mustelids from four counties in maine and one in new hampshire were identified after harvest. of the 18 fishers martes pennanti erxleben, two mink neovison vison schreber, and one long-tailed weasel mustela frenata lichtenstein, 589 ticks were collected and identified. they were identified as, in order of abundance, ixodes gregsoni lindquist, wu, and redner (158 larvae, 189 nymphs, four adults), ixodes cookei packard (99 larvae, 77 nymphs, six adults), ixodes scapularis say ... | 2014 | 24690190 |