| incidence of infection and host specificity of cuterebra tenebrosa in bushy-tailed wood rats (neotoma cinerea) from central washington. | cuterebra tenebrosa coquillett bot flies were studied under natural and laboratory conditions in bushy-tailed wood rats and 7 other small mammal host species. larvae demonstrated strong host specificity for neotoma cinerea. monthly trapping samples of wood rats in central washington showed infection peaks of 65--70% in may and 30--40% in late summer. in laboratory-induced infections, wood rats supported 7 larvae without host mortality. natural infections in trapped rats ranged from 1 to 6 per ho ... | 1979 | 512757 |
| isolation of borrelia burgdorferi from the blood of a bushy-tailed wood rat in california. | borrelia burgdorferi was isolated from the blood of a bushy-tailed wood rat (neotoma cinerea) from northeastern california, usa. this is the first isolation of live b. burgdorferi spirochetes from a wild animal in california. spirochetes were observed in stained tissues from the brain, liver, spleen, and kidneys. | 1993 | 8355352 |
| tularemia, plague, yersiniosis, and tyzzer's disease in wild rodents and lagomorphs in canada: a review. | information related to infection of wild rodents or lagomorphs in canada by francisella tularensis, yersinia pestis, other yersinia spp., and clostridium piliforme was searched for this study. reports on tularemia in humans linked to these species came from diagnostic databases, literature, wildlife health specialists, and public health agencies. tularemia has been diagnosed in 8 species of wild rodent and 2 species in the genus lepus in canada. tularemia occurred in wild animals, or in humans a ... | 2009 | 20190973 |
| peridomestic mammal susceptibility to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. | wild animals have been implicated as the origin of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2), but it is largely unknown how the virus affects most wildlife species and if wildlife could ultimately serve as a reservoir for maintaining the virus outside the human population. we show that several common peridomestic species, including deer mice, bushy-tailed woodrats, and striped skunks, are susceptible to infection and can shed the virus in respiratory secretions. in contrast, w ... | 2021 | 34286685 |
| eimeria albigulae and e. ladronensis: new host records from the bushy-tailed woodrat, neotoma cinerea, from utah. | | 1987 | 3585638 |
| mammal and flea relationships in the great basin desert: from h. j. egoscue's collections. | host-parasite association among 58 flea species parasitizing 40 mammal species in the great basin desert of the western united states was investigated. increased flea species richness was correlated with larger geographic ranges and stable locomotion of hosts. hosts from habitats of moderately low productivity (sage and grass) and of peromyscus maniculatus size, 10-33 g, had the highest flea species richness. larger hosts had fewer flea species, but fleas were more prevalent. increased host spec ... | 2006 | 16729681 |
| susceptibility of various species of rodents to the relapsing fever spirochete, borrelia hermsii. | in a study to determine susceptibility to borrelia hermsii of various rodents commonly found in or near places where human cases of relapsing fever occurred, chipmunks (eutamias amoenus), pine squirrels (tamiasciurus hudsonicus richardsoni), flying squirrels (glaucomys sabrinus), columbian ground squirrels (spermophilus columbianus columbianus), golden-mantled ground squirrels (s. lateralis tescorum), wood rats (neotoma cinerea cinerea), white-footed deer mice (peromyscus maniculatus), and meado ... | 1970 | 16557828 |
| growth curves for bushy-tailed woodrats based upon animals raised in the wild. | | 1973 | 4706257 |
| serological and virological evidence of a hantaan virus-related enzootic in the united states. | the first isolation of a hantaan-related virus from a feral rat in the united states was made from a rattus norvegicus caught in new orleans. the strain, designated tchoupitoulas virus, is antigenically related to, but distinct from, the prototype strain 76-118 of hantaan virus and is the first hantaan-like virus isolated from the pancreas of a naturally infected animal. serosurveys of wild rodents from urban and rural areas in the united states indicated that hantaan-related viruses infected ur ... | 1985 | 2861241 |
| new host and locality records of coccidia (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from rodents in the southwestern and western united states. | one hundred forty-seven murid and heteromyid rodents were collected from various sites in the southwestern and western united states (arizona, colorado, new mexico, texas, and utah) and baja california norte, mexico, and their feces were examined for coccidial parasites. of these, 53 (36%) were infected with at least 1 coccidian; 45 of 53 (85%) of the infected rodents harbored only 1 species of coccidian. infected rodents included: 10 of 22 (45%) neotoma albigula, 3 of 11 (27%) neotoma floridana ... | 1991 | 1779282 |
| the natural occurrence of echinococcus multilocularis in the bushy-tailed woodrat, neotoma cinerea rupicola, in wyoming. | echinococcus multilocularis leuckart, 1863, is reported from neotoma cinerea rupicola allen in wyoming. this report represents new host and locality records for the cestode. the larva had undergone active multilocular vesiculation in the liver with minimal host-tissue reaction. protoscolices and calcareous corpuscles were absent. | 1977 | 907044 |
| mineralogy of woodrat neotoma cinerea, urine deposits from northeastern california. | | 1978 | 659994 |
| ancient dna provides evidence of 27,000-year-old papillomavirus infection and long-term codivergence with rodents. | the long-term evolutionary history of many viral lineages is poorly understood. novel sources of ancient dna combined with phylogenetic analyses can provide insight into the time scale of virus evolution. here we report viral sequences from ancient north american packrat middens. we screened samples up to 27,000-years old and found evidence of papillomavirus (pv) infection in neotoma cinerea (bushy-tailed packrat). phylogenetic analysis placed the pv sequences in a clade with other previously pu ... | 2018 | 29977605 |
| a winter energetics model for bobcats in a deep snow environment. | understanding basic energetic requirements of wildlife species is critical to evaluate how individuals persist in their current environments as well as to forecast responses to changed climates or habitats. indeed, northern range limits are often thought to reflect harsh abiotic conditions that exceed the capacity of individuals to stay in energetic balance. bobcats (lynx rufus) occur across much of north america; at northern latitudes, they face winter challenges such as deep snows, cold temper ... | 2019 | 30784488 |
| british columbia. plague in bushy-tailed woodrats. | | 1989 | 17423380 |
| sex-biased mortality in woodrats occurs in the absence of parental intervention | male-biased mortality in young animals is often viewed as adaptive discrimination against male offspring by parents unable to raise reproductively competitive sons. unequivocal evidence of the presence or absence of parental discrimination against males is lacking, however, and the adaptive interpretation of male-biased mortality is confounded by an alternative explanation that it reflects differential energetic requirements between the sexes (due to sexual selection for large size in mature mal ... | 1998 | 9515049 |
| a review of the flea genus phalacropsylla rothschild, 1915 (siphonaptera, ctenophthalmidae, neopsyllinae, phalacropsyllini) with new host and distributional records. | a redescription of the genus phalacropsylla rothschild is provided. six species are recognized: phalacropsylla allos wagner, p. hamata tipton and mendez, p. morlani eads and campos, p. nivalis barrera and traub, p. oregonensis lewis and maser, and p. paradisea rothschild. phalacropsylla hamata is designated herein as a junior synonym of p. paradisea. the distribution of p. paradisea is more extensive than previously thought, extending from arizona through southern colorado, into new mexico, texa ... | 2017 | 28769677 |
| techniques for immobilizing and bleeding marmots and woodrats. | blood samples were obtained in the field by femoral vein puncture in bushy-tailed woodrats (neotoma cinerea) and yellow-bellied marmots (marmota flaviventris) that had been injected intramuscularly with ketamine hydrochloride. dosages ranged from 50 mg/kg for marmots to 30 to 110 mg/kg for woodrats. sedated animals were handled easily, and a volume of blood sufficient for hematological assays or electrophoresis could be collected. | 1989 | 2668571 |