Unbalanced metabolic status in the weeks after calving predisposes dairy cows to metabolic and infectious diseases. Blood glucose, IGF-I, non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) and β-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) are used as indicators of the metabolic status of cows. This work aims...

Analysing hair cortisol concentrations (HCCs) is a minimally invasive way to retrospectively assess long-term stress, and its application in studies of animal welfare and stress has attracted considerable interest. However, not only stress-related effects but also hair-...

Human activities and anthropogenic environmental changes are having a profound effect on biodiversity and the sustainability and health of many populations and species of wild mammals. There has been less attention devoted to the impact of human activities on the welfar...

ABSTRACT Equid herpesviruses (EHVs) are pathogens of equid and nonequid hosts that can cause disease and fatalities in captivity and in the wild. EHVs establish latent infections but can reactivate, and most EHVs are shed via the nasal passage. Therefore, nasal swabs ar...

The complete list of fish-like vertebrates and fishes living in reservoirs and watercourses of the basin of the Upper Irtysh is given. The list contains 43 species belonging to 7 orders, 10 families and 30 genera. All currently registered species whose validity has been...

Saptiani G, Pebrianto CA, Agustina, Hardi EH, Ardhani F. 2017. Short Communication: Diversity and prevalence of ectoparasites associated with cultured fish from coal ponds in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. Biodiversitas 18: 666-670. In East Kalimantan, coal pits are used f...

International audience; The Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas is currently being impacted by a polymicrobial disease that involves early viral infection by ostreid herpesvirus-1 (OsHV-1) followed by a secondary bacterial infection leading to death. A widely used method o...

Aim: Visualization of Staphylococcus aureus biofilm using histochemical staining and combined histochemistry (HC) and immunohistochemistry (IHC).Methods: The ability of S. aureus S54F9 to form biofilm was tested in vitro. Hereafter, infected bone tissue was collected fr...

espanolResumen Juveniles de Piaractus brachypomus (30 ± 4,76g) fueron alimentados ad libitum durante 30 d con una dieta de 32 % de proteina, suplementada con seis cantidades diferentes de acido ascorbico (AA): T1 = 0 mg/kg; T2 = 100 mg/kg; T3 = 200 mg/kg; T4 = 400 mg/kg...

Three semi-domesticated reindeer breeds inhabiting the Republic of Sakha – Yakutia have been characterized using nine microsatellite markers. Genomic DNA was isolated from tissue samples of 123 individuals of the Chukotka (Khargin) (CHU, n=47), the Evenk (EVK, n=32) and...