| metabolic meaning of elevated levels of oxidative enzymes in high altitude adapted animals: an interpretive hypothesis. | it is commonly observed that during acclimatization to altitude oxidative enzyme activities increase per g wet weight of tissue. to examine this problem in long-term adapted animals we measured citrate synthase (cs), hydroxyacylcoa dehydrogenase (hoad), pyruvate kinase (pk), and lactate dehydrogenase (ldh) activities/g of myocardium in two domestic species (llama and alpaca) and a high altitude deer, the taruca. in all these species, we found an upward scaling of oxidative capacity (indicated by ... | 1983 | 6612104 |
| [genetic variability in neotropical deer genera (mammalia: cervidae) according to dna microsatellite loci]. | species conservation programs are highly based on analyses of population genetics. we compared eight neotropical cervidae (mazama americana, m. gouzaoubira, m. rufina, odocoileus virginianus, hippocamelus antisensis, pudu mephistopholes, ozotoceros bezoarticus and blastoceros dichotomus) and some european and asian cervidae (cervus elaphus, c. nippon, capreolus capreolus, c. pygargus and dama dama). the european species c. elaphus was our standard for a high degree of genetic variability: we use ... | 2009 | 19928479 |
| molecular identification of anaplasma marginale in two autochthonous south american wild species revealed an identical new genotype and its phylogenetic relationship with those of bovines. | anaplasma marginale is a well-known cattle pathogen of tropical and subtropical world regions. even though, this obligate intracellular bacterium has been reported in other host species different than bovine, it has never been documented in myrmecophaga tridactyla (giant anteater) or hippocamelus antisense (taruca), which are two native endangered species. | 2016 | 27229471 |
| the taruca (hippocamelus antisensis) and the red brocket deer (mazama americana) as intermediate hosts of taenia hydatigena in peru, morphological and molecular evidence. | in the present report metacestodes were collected from the mesentery of a taruca (hippocamelus antisensis) and from the omentum of a red brocket deer (mazama americana) in peru. various metacestodes parameters, including rostellar hook characteristics, were measured. molecular analysis was performed to amplify the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 gene from metacestode isolates. metacestodes were identified as t. hydatigena by morphology and molecular methods. this constitutes the fir ... | 2015 | 26277568 |
| a gene-tree test of the traditional taxonomy of american deer: the importance of voucher specimens, geographic data, and dense sampling. | the taxonomy of american deer has been established almost entirely on the basis of morphological data and without the use of explicit phylogenetic methods; hence, phylogenetic analyses including data for all of the currently recognized species, even if based on a single gene, might improve current understanding of their taxonomy. we tested the monophyly of the morphology-defined genera and species of new world deer (odocoileini) with phylogenetic analyses of mitochondrial dna sequences. this is ... | 2017 | 29134018 |