(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.
Vison
Definition:
(n.) The mink.
Example Sentences:
(1) Skin surface lipids from mink (Mustela vison) were collected in acetone and analyzed by thin-layer chromatography and gas chromatography.
(2) 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.
(3) The pineal complex in the mink (Mustela vison) consists of a larger ventral and a smaller dorsal pineal.
(4) The endocrine testicular function in mink (Mustela vison) was investigated during the first year of life encompassing puberty, the first mating season and the phase of regression thereafter.
(5) Mink (Mustela vison) were inoculated with viruses: African horse sickness (AHS), African swine fever (ASF), bovine herpes virus II (BHV2), foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), goat pox (GP), hog cholera (HC), peste des petits ruminants (PPR), rinderpest (RP), swine vesicular disease (SVD), vesicular exanthema of swine (VES) and vesicular stomatitis (VS).
(6) The BATP gene coding for the beta-subunit of Na+,K+-ATPase has been localized on chromosome 13 of the American mink (Mustela vison) using mink-Chinese hamster somatic cell hybrids and pig cDNA clones as probes.
(7) Paragonimus kellicotti Ward, 1908 was recovered from 16 of 105 mink (Mustela vison), 14 of 244 striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis), 10 of 446 red foxes (Vulpes vulpes), 1 of 31 coyotes (Canis latrans), 0 of 326 raccoons (Procyon lotor) and 0 of 8 weasels (Mustela spp.)
(8) The C120 Magnum trap, equipped with a 66 x 69 mm pan trigger, which favored double strikes in the neck and thorax regions, successfully killed nine of nine wild mink (Mustela vison) in simulated natural conditions.
(9) A natural killer cell assay was developed for the mink (Mustela vison) using mink peripheral mononuclear cells as effector cells and a mouse lymphoma cell line as targets.
(10) In comparison with the rat, the mink (Mustela vison) has a markedly expanded nasal mucosa.
(11) Excretion of radioactivity by mink (Mustela vison) during 7 days after intraperitoneal injection of two different amounts of aflatoxin B1 was studied.
(12) During lactation, 5 female mink (Mustela vison) were given 50 mug of aflatoxin B1 orally twice, 2 weeks apart.
(13) Seven female mink (Mustela vison) were injected intraperitoneally with a single dose of 100 mug aflatoxin B1 (14 C-label and unabeled).
(14) During a 14-year period, carcinoma of the anal sac apocrine glands was found in 52 pastel and 8 sapphire mink (Mustela vison) kept for studies on slow viral diseases.
(15) This category includes genes species-specific for Mustela vison which make the main contribution to Lpm polymorphism.
(16) The epizootiological status of mink (Mustela vison) as definitive hosts and Apodemus speciosus as intermediate hosts in the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis in Hokkaido, Japan, were evaluated by orally inoculating mink with protoscoleces, and A. speciosus with eggs of the cestode, respectively.
(17) DNA reassociation kinetics were studied in the European mink (Mustela lutreola), the American mink (M. vison), the marbled polecat (Vormela peregusna).
(18) were found in the lungs of 10 of 18 (56%) mink (Mustela vison).
(19) Among the investigated carnivores (dog, cat, sloth bear, American mink, gray seal, and California sea lion) the Bassariscus alpha A sequence exclusively shares two amino acid replacements with the alpha A chain of the mink, Mustela vison: 7 His----Gln and 61 Ile----Val.
(20) The morphology of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), Bruch's membrane (complexus basalis), choriocapillaris and tapetum lucidum has been studied in the eye of the ranch mink (Mustela vison) by light and electron microscopy.