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Transabdominal Ultrasound for Pregnancy Diagnosis in Reeves' Muntjac Deer
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2014
Transabdominal ultrasound is described as an effective, noninvasive means for assessing reproductive status in Reeves' muntjac deer. These methods can be used to achieve early pregnancy diagnosis and to evaluate fetal viability. Future applications of this technique include estimation of gestational age and effects of maternal disease on fetal development.
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Milk Collection Methods for Mice and Reeves' Muntjac Deer
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2014
Milk collection from animal models facilitates various research avenues: understanding passive immunity, identifying pathogens responsible for vertical transmission and, through the use of transgenic mice, even commercial production of proteins found in human breast milk. Here we illustrate a simple method for milk collection in mice and Reeves’ muntjac deer.
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Protocol for Assessing the Relative Effects of Environment and Genetics on Antler and Body Growth for a Long-lived Cervid
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2017
Phenotypic differences among cervid populations may be related to population-level genetics or nutrition; discerning which is difficult in the wild. This protocol describes how we designed a controlled study where nutritional variation was eliminated. We found that phenotypic variation of male white-tailed deer was more limited by nutrition than genetics.
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Barnes Maze Testing Strategies with Small and Large Rodent Models
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2014
The dry-land Barnes maze is widely used to measure spatial navigation ability in response to mildly aversive stimuli. Over consecutive days, performance (e.g. latency to locate escape cage) of control subjects improves, indicative of normal learning and memory. Differences between rats and mice necessitate apparatus and methodology changes that are detailed here.
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Measuring Spatially- and Directionally-varying Light Scattering from Biological Material
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2013
We present a non-destructive method for sampling spatial variation in the direction of light scattered from structurally complex materials. By keeping the material intact, we preserve gross-scale scattering behavior, while concurrently capturing fine-scale directional contributions with high-resolution imaging. Results are visualized in software at biologically-relevant positions and scales.
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Seasonal availability of forage and water helps determine where Mule deer can survive and when they move between winter and summer ranges. These movements connect population health with changing habitat conditions rather than reflecting a single, permanent home area. Biologists therefore examine resource conditions across seasons when evaluating habitat quality, movement patterns, and conservation needs.
Males grow and shed antlers as part of an annual reproductive cycle. Because this pattern repeats seasonally, antlers provide a visible biological feature for studying timing and seasonal change in males. Within wildlife biology, the cycle adds reproductive context to broader investigations of behavior, population health, and environmental conditions affecting Mule deer.
These factors represent different pressures on Mule deer populations and their habitats. Predator pressure can be considered alongside forage and water availability, while habitat fragmentation and climate effects help researchers evaluate movement between seasonal ranges and changing environmental conditions. Studying them together supports a more complete assessment of survival, migration, and population health.
Biologists combine behavioral observation, population surveys, genetic analysis, and movement tracking. Observation documents behavior, surveys provide information about populations, genetic analysis adds biological evidence, and tracking follows movement across landscapes. Using several approaches allows researchers to examine Mule deer from complementary perspectives, including behavior, population health, migration, disease, habitat fragmentation, and climate effects.
Movement tracking shows how Mule deer use landscapes during seasonal changes and helps researchers examine connections between winter and summer ranges. This information is especially relevant when studying migration and habitat fragmentation, because conservation planning depends on understanding how animals move through connected ecosystems. The resulting evidence can guide efforts to protect important habitat connections.
Population surveys help biologists evaluate population health and relate those patterns to habitat conditions. When considered with information about forage, water, predators, seasonal movements, and climate effects, survey results support sustainable wildlife management rather than isolated population counts. They also contribute to conservation planning focused on maintaining healthy Mule deer populations and connected ecosystems.
Genetic analysis provides one of the biological approaches used to study Mule deer alongside observations, surveys, and movement tracking. Its inclusion broadens research beyond visible behavior and geographic movement, helping biologists investigate populations through multiple lines of evidence. In conservation biology, this combined research supports evaluation of disease, habitat fragmentation, migration, and long-term management needs.