| the prevalence of anti-leptospiral agglutinins in sera of wildlife in southeastern australia. | anti-leptospiral agglutinins were found in the serum from 18 (7 species) of 419 (25 species) animals sampled from various areas of southeastern australia. positive serologic reactions were observed in 5 of 25 (20%) brush-tailed possum (trichosurus vulpecula), 1 of 26 (3.8%) tammar wallaby (macropus eugenii), 2 of 12 (16.7%) swamp wallaby (wallabia bicolor), 1 of 3 (33.3%) koala (phascolarctos cinereus), 3 of 41 (7.3%) common wombat (vombatus ursinus), 2 of 100 (2%) bush rat (rattus fuscipes) and ... | 1981 | 7241704 |
| prevalence of fasciola hepatica infection in native mammals in southeastern australia. | fasciola hepatica infection was found in 5 of 12 marsupial and 1 of 3 eutherian species examined in southeastern australia. prevalence of infection in native mammals was as follows: macropus giganteus, 59%; m. rufogriseus banksianus, 15%; wallabia bicolor, 5%; vombatus ursinus, 30%; trichosurus vulpecula, 5%; and rattus fuscipes, 4%. collection sites were assigned to one of two categories. prevalence was higher in macropodids collected on agricultural pastures grazed by sheep and cattle (categor ... | 1981 | 7340772 |
| physiological responses to temperature stress by an australian murid, rattus lutreolus. | | 1973 | 4706246 |
| the effects of plant and tooth structure on intake and digestibility in two small mammalian herbivores. | we investigated the interaction between plant structure and animal tooth structure and how it can affect digestive performance in two small mammalian herbivores. mastacomys fuscus, an exclusively herbivorous rodent, and rattus lutreolus, a less herbivorous rodent, were fed diets varying in fibre structure and level (18%-45% neutral detergent fibre). on high-fibre whole wheat diets, r. lutreolus was not able to maintain body mass. m. fuscus was able to maintain body mass, and this was related to ... | 1997 | 9231408 |
| patterns of detection and capture are associated with cohabiting predators and prey. | avoidance behaviour can play an important role in structuring ecosystems but can be difficult to uncover and quantify. remote cameras have great but as yet unrealized potential to uncover patterns arising from predatory, competitive or other interactions that structure animal communities by detecting species that are active at the same sites and recording their behaviours and times of activity. here, we use multi-season, two-species occupancy models to test for evidence of interactions between i ... | 2013 | 23565172 |
| cryptosporidium viatorum from the native australian swamp rat rattus lutreolus - an emerging zoonotic pathogen? | cryptosporidium viatorum is a globally distributed pathogenic species of cryptosporidium that has only ever been recorded from humans, until now. for the first time, we molecularly characterised a novel subtype of c. viatorum (subtype xvba2g1) from the endemic australian swamp rat (rattus lutreolus) using the small subunit of nuclear ribosomal rna (ssu) gene and then subtyped it using the 60-kilodalton glycoprotein (gp60) gene. in total, faecal samples from 21 swamp rats (three were positive for ... | 2018 | 29556470 |