| ranavirus-associated mass mortality in imported red tailed knobby newts (tylototriton kweichowensis): a case report. | a mass die-off of imported red tailed knobby newts (tylototriton kweichowensis) occurred in 2004 in belgium and the netherlands. in addition to massive infection with rhabdias tokyoensis, ranavirus was isolated from three dead newts examined virologically and the gene coding for the major capsid protein of the virus was sequenced. the isolate showed 99.8% similarity to the published sequence of frog virus 3. upon experimental infection of axolotls (ambystoma mexicanum) with this isolate, no mark ... | 2008 | 17449300 |
| sperm collection and cryopreservation for threatened newt species. | the aims of this project were to transfer hormone-induced spermiation and sperm cryopreservation protocols developed in the model salamander species, ambystoma tigrinum, to three threatened newt species. additionally, we tested if supplementation with trehalose or thawing at different temperatures impacts post-thaw sperm parameters. hormone stimulation protocols were applied to male notophthalmus meridionalis (n = 10), neurergus kaiseri (n = 5) and tylototriton kweichowensis (n = 6) with sperm c ... | 2020 | 32437677 |
| comparative anatomy of trunk musculature in salamandridae with different habitats. | the diversity of trunk muscle morphology of salamandridae occupying different habitats (aquatic: pachytriton labiatus; terrestrial: tylototriton kweichowensis and salamandra salamandra salamandra) was examined. trunk muscles were dissected, and muscle weight ratios were quantified. the terrestrial species have larger abdominal trunk muscles than the aquatic species do. in contrast, the lateral hypaxial muscles are larger in the aquatic species. the m. rectus abdominis profundus is located subjac ... | 2019 | 31251489 |
| complete mitochondrial genome sequence of red-tailed knobby newt (tylototriton kweichowensis). | the entire mitogenome of tylototriton kweichowensis is 16 727 bp in length. it consists of 13 protein-coding genes (pcgs), 2 ribosomal rna genes (rrna), 22 transfer rna genes (trna), and 1 control region (cr). except for nd6 subunit and 8 trna genes are distributed on the l-strand, all the other pcgs and trna genes are located on the h-strand. "atg" and "gtg" are the start codons of the pcgs, "taa", "aga", "ta-" and "t--" are the stop codons. most of the trna genes can be folded into typical clo ... | 2016 | 26465267 |