| barbary sheep (ammotragus lervia): the structure of the adult beta-globin gene and the functional properties of its hemoglobin. | the adult beta-globin gene of ammotragus lervia (barbary sheep or aoudad) has been sequenced completely, including 185 base pairs of 5' flanking region and 168 base pairs 3' to the stop codon, and compared with that of other caprines such as goat (capra hircus), wild corsico-sardinian (ovis aries musimon) and cypriot (o. a. ophion) mouflons, and domestic sheep (ovis aries). the gene was identified as being located on a triplicated four-gene set cluster containing the hbba locus (a-haplotype) as ... | 2006 | 16962804 |
| the sequence and phylogenesis of the ?-globin genes of barbary sheep (ammotragus lervia), goat (capra hircus), european mouflon (ovis aries musimon) and cyprus mouflon (ovis aries ophion). | in order to investigate the polymorphism of ?-globin chain of hemoglobin amongst caprines, the linked (i)? and (ii)? globin genes of barbary sheep (ammotragus lervia), goat (capra hircus), european mouflon (ovis aries musimon), and cyprus mouflon (ovis aries ophion) were completely sequenced, including the 5? and 3? untranslated regions. european and cyprus mouflons, which do not show polymorphic ? globin chains, had almost identical ? globin genes, whereas barbary sheep exhibit two different ch ... | 2009 | 20403763 |
| structure and function of sheep hemoglobin chios: a novel allele at the hbbb locus with two lys-->arg substitutions at positions beta66(e10) and beta144(hc1). | a novel hemoglobin variant was observed in pure sheep (ovis aries) breeds of the island of chios (greece), egypt and hungary. this silent variant was identified by gel electrophoresis and rp-hplc of dissociated globin chains. two arg for lys substitutions were detected, by means of maldi tof electrospray mass spectrometric analysis for the intact globins, at positions beta66(e10) and beta144(hc1) of a globin chain having the sequence of the beta(b) chain. sequencing of the beta-globin gene confi ... | 2007 | 20483281 |
| tick-borne bacteria in mouflons and their ectoparasites in cyprus. | the cypriot mouflon (ovis orientalis ophion), a once almost extirpated species of wild sheep, is under strict surveillance because it can be threatened by likely transmission of pathogenic bacteria, such as anaplasma spp., rickettsia spp., and coxiella burnetii, primarily from domestic ungulates. we collected 77 blood samples from cypriot mouflons and 663 of their ectoparasites (rhipicephalus turanicus, rhipicephalus sanguineus, rhipicephalus bursa, hyalomma anatolicum excavatum, hyalomma margin ... | 2011 | 21441182 |
| the first mitogenome of the cyprus mouflon (ovis gmelini ophion): new insights into the phylogeny of the genus ovis. | sheep are thought to have been one of the first livestock to be domesticated in the near east, thus playing an important role in human history. the current whole mitochondrial genome phylogeny for the genus ovis is based on: the five main domestic haplogroups occurring among sheep (o. aries), along with molecular data from two wild european mouflons, three urials, and one argali. with the aim to shed some further light on the phylogenetic relationship within this genus, the first complete mitoch ... | 2015 | 26636977 |
| coxiella burnetii in wildlife and ticks in an endemic area. | ticks are considered to be a natural reservoir of coxiella burnetii and are responsible for the spread of infection in wild animals and for the transmission to domestic animals. more than 40 tick species are naturally infected with c. burnetii. in cyprus, few studies have been carried out on the distribution and incidence of c. burnetii infection in wildlife and the threat that infected wild animals pose to humans and domestic animals remains uncertain. | 2014 | 25163752 |
| conservation of endemic and threatened wildlife: molecular forensic dna against poaching of the cypriot mouflon (ovis orientalis ophion, bovidae). | molecular dna techniques in combination with appropriate reference population database and statistical methods are fundamental tools to forensic wildlife investigations. this is even more relevant when taxa with uncertain systematics are involved, as is the case of the genus ovis (bovidae), whose evolution has been influenced by multiple events of domestication. the cypriot mouflon, ovis orientalis ophion, a protected subspecies endemic to cyprus, is threatened by poaching. this study deals with ... | 2012 | 22226984 |