(n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.
Example Sentences:
(1) Omasal contents were collected from slaughtered cattle (n = 54), bison (n = 15), and sheep (n = 40) to determine numbers and generic distribution of ciliated protozoa.
(2) Bovine herpesvirus-4 is not strictly species-specific: infection was proved in American bison (Bison bison), African buffalo (Syncerus caffer), sheep and probably cat, because feline herpesvirus-2 is in fact a BHV-4 strain.
(3) Thirty bison possessed a type B protozoan population, characterized by Epidinium sp., Eudiplodinium maggii, and Eudiplodinium bovis.
(4) Male bison were more ataxic, often observed in sternal or lateral recumbency, less conscious, and were slower to respond than females or controls.
(5) The described coccidial species, common to cattle, have not been reported previosuly from American bison, (Bison bison).
(6) Tuberculin skin test responses were observed in 2 of 6 calves at 9 and 11 months after pen contact with M bovis-exposed bison (group 1).
(7) Bison harbored higher (P less than 0.02) numbers of Dasytricha spp., Eudiplodinium maggii, Eudiplodinium bursa, and Epidinium spp.
(8) Two types of neurons were distinguished in nucleus olivaris inferior of the European bison.
(9) The farmer told me he'd had bison here as well, and other creatures of the prairies and steppes.
(10) Differential white blood cell counts for the white-tailed deer were markedly different from those of the pronghorn and bison.
(11) Cattle, bison, and elk serum samples were treated with 0.2 M-mercaptoethanol before examination in MAT.
(12) The accuracy of pregnancy diagnosis was determined among 18 bison cows, in approximately the third month of gestation, by means of urinary pregnanediol-3 delta-glucuronide (PdG), urinary estrone conjugates (E1C), and fecal total estrogens (TE).
(13) More data is needed from other bison herds in this country to better describe the range of normal variation in individuals, population and age groups of B. bison.
(14) Card agglutination and complement-fixation tests on all bison serums were negative.
(15) Sexually mature bison (Bison bison) cows were tested for both pregnancy and ovulation by means of urinary steroid metabolites and fecal steroids.
(16) Korean cattle (Hamhung, Pyongyang, Chinju Suwon, and Kwangju), Mongolian cattle, Hainan Tao cattle, northeastern Chinese cattle (Shuangliao, Shenyang, Tongliao, Lüta, and Chilin), Astatic Water Buffalo, Yak, Bos Banteng, American Bison, and Holstein-Friesian.
(17) Pathogenesis of brucellosis in bison was studied in an additional group of six pregnant bison which were challenged with 1 x 10(7) CFU of B. abortus strain 2308.
(18) On the "winter harvest-themed menu" at the White House: First course Brussels sprouts, applewood smoked bacon Second course Spring garden lettuces, shallot dressing, shaved breakfast radish, cucumbers and avocados Main course Bison wellington, a red wine reduction, French beans, cipollini onions Dessert Warm meyer lemon steamed pudding with Idaho huckleberry sauce and newtown pippin apples American wines
(19) Serologic and hematologic standards for bison are needed to detect disease in transported animals as well as within herds.
(20) The level for uninfected bison was near the upper limit of normal for cattle.
Bos
Definition:
(n.) A genus of ruminant quadrupeds, including the wild and domestic cattle, distinguished by a stout body, hollow horns, and a large fold of skin hanging from the neck.
Example Sentences:
(1) Severe pathological changes were observed in the adrenal and thyroid glands of Zebu (Bos indicus) heifers infected with Trypanosoma congolense.
(2) The frequent detection of mutated ras genes in a variety of cancers (reviewed in Bos, 1988, 1989; Der, 1988) suggests that ras makes a significant contribution to human malignancies (reviewed in Barbacid, 1987; Lacal and Tronick, 1988; Der, 1989).
(3) It contains 64 amino acid residues including one phosphoserine and differs from its bovine (Bos taurus) B counterpart by 10 amino acid substitutions.
(4) Balanorchis anastrophus Fischoeder, 1901, from the reticulum of Bos taurus is reported for the first time in the State of Pará, Brazil.
(5) For the recovery of serotype 0:8 strains, the common clinical isolates in North America, enrichment in BOS and plating on CIN seems the most efficient procedure.
(6) Cytogenetic studies of the mithun (Bos frontalis), the siri (Bos indicus) and their hybrids, as well as histological examinations of testes and epididymis of siri and hybrids were undertaken to throw further light on male hybrid infertility and interspecies incompatibility, in order to facilitate the possible development of a stable interspecies crossbreed which would be similar to the highly profitable jatsum, the female mithun cross siri hybrid.
(7) We measured baseline plasma cortisol concentration over a 44-day study in Bos indicus and Bos taurus calves.
(8) The two Holstein differed at six sites, whereas the Hariana breed (Bos indicus) did not show any site polymorphism.
(9) Oestrus in domestic animals was synchronized satisfactorily during the normal breeding season by both of the standard treatments with prostaglandins or progestagens initially developed for use in Bos taurus cattle.
(10) Impairment of T-cell function in Boran (Bos indicus) cattle during primary infection with Trypanosoma congolense ILNat 3.1 was found to occur in peripheral blood, spleen and, in particular, the lymph nodes.
(11) To determine whether some of these adaptations may be present in a domain of tubulin that participates directly or indirectly in lateral contact between microtubule protofilaments, we have examined the energetics of the binding of colchicine, a drug thought to bind to such a site, to pure brain tubulins from an Antarctic fish (Notothenia gibberifrons) and from a mammal (the cow, Bos taurus).
(12) Stool bile acid measurements were of use in differentiating between IBW and IBS, but did not distinguish between CD and BOS or between CD and IR.
(13) Studies have been made on the peroxidase activity of metmyoglobins in animals from various ecological groups--the horse Equus caballus, cattle Bos taurus, beaver Castor fiber, otter Lutra lutra, mink Mustela vison and dog Canis familiaris.
(14) Protein methylase II (protein O-methyltransferase, EC 2.1.1.24) was found in Dictyostelium discoideum amoebae, Astacus leptodactylus axonal, Locusta migratoroides neuronal, Torpedo marmorata electroplaque and Bos bovis stratial tissue and compared in both the soluble and particulate fractions.
(15) The results were compared with the findings in 28 specimens of Bos taurus aged 1-4 years.
(16) Many of the European antisera, which are operationally monospecific in Bos taurus cattle, were multispecific in the African animals.
(17) WIM-8, an IgG2b monoclonal antibody, identified the 44,000 dalton protein of the bovine MHC class I molecule present on Bos taurus and Bos indicus animals.
(18) In various respiratory areas of the mucosa of the nasal conchae of the zebu (Bos indicus) there is a quantitative variation of goblet cells.
(19) The arrangement, origin, course and opening of the ductuli efferents testis of the bull (Bos taurus) were visualized using scanning electron microscopy.
(20) Plasma haptoglobin (Hp) in cattle (Bos taurus) has a molecular mass so large that it is virtually unable to penetrate 4% polyacrylamide gels and is excluded from gel filtration media with an upper exclusion limit of greater than 1000 kDa.