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Veterinary News

• The Incidence Of Coccidia In Broilers Is Increasing
  Sun, 31 August 2008
  Coccidia are single-celled intestinal parasites that currently represent one of the greatest challenges to the broiler industry. To keep the level of infection low, farmers commonly add coccidia-inhibiting chemicals (coccidiostats) to broiler feed. While this does not kill the parasites, it greatly reduces the incidence of o ...
• World Rabies Day Reminder Vaccinate Pets
  Sat, 30 August 2008
  World Rabies Day (WRD) is just a year old -- the inaugural event was held last September -- but in just a year it has touched the lives of people in over 180 countries. Its message is simple; prevent rabies in humans. This year WRD is Sept. 28. Rabies is still a major threat worldwide.
• Predicting Infection Risk Of Airborne Foot-And-Mouth Disease
  Fri, 29 August 2008
  Foot-and-mouth is a highly contagious disease of global socio-economic importance. In countries considered disease-free the control and eradication of any outbreak is reliant upon prompt detection of infected premises. Our paper presents a practical method for predicting airborne infections and prioritising farms for ins ...
• First Fossil Gravid Turtle Provides Insight Into The Evolution Of Reproductive Traits In ...
  Fri, 29 August 2008
  This study reports on the first fossil turtle with eggs preserved within the body cavity, as well as on one of the few known North American fossil turtle nests. These fossils belong to an extinct turtle called Adocus, and were found in 75 million year old rocks in Alberta, Canada. The specimens reveal that Adocus built its ...
• Evolutionary Conservation Of Mechanisms For Neuronal Regionalization, Proliferation And ...
  Fri, 29 August 2008
  Comparative studies of different aspects of brain development in vertebrates and invertebrates reveal remarkable similarities in expression and function of key developmental control genes. Indeed, vertebrates and invertebrates share a complex set of control genes and molecular genetic interactions that are responsible for ...
• Social Personality Trait And Fitness
  Fri, 29 August 2008
  Animal personalities are defined as consistent individual differences across time and context. We recently demonstrated that social personality traits (i.e. sociability) exist in the common lizard and that the variation of sociability provides an explanation for variable habitat preferences within a given species. Here, we ...
• Temperature Dependent Sex-biased Embryo Mortality In A Bird
  Fri, 29 August 2008
  This is the first study to show temperature dependent sex-biased embryo mortality operating in a bird. Molecular sexing of chicks and embryos of the Australian Brush-turkey (Alectura lathami) confirmed that male embryo mortality was greater at high temperatures while female mortality is greater at low temperatures, with m ...
• Animals Adapt Their Vocal Signals To Social Situations
  Thu, 28 August 2008
  A special August issue of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, published by the American Psychological Association, presents a host of studies that investigate the way that animals adapt their calls, chirps, barks and whistles to their social situation.
• Moving With The Beat: Heart Rate And Visceral Temperature Of Free-Swimming And Feeding B ...
  Thu, 28 August 2008
  Nothing is known of the cardiovascular function of free-swimming bluefin tuna. We used a surgically-implanted data logger to measure heart rate and visceral temperature of free-swimming and feeding southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii; 10-21 kg) within sea pens in Australia.
• AVMA Issues Statement On California Proposition 2
  Thu, 28 August 2008
  The largest and most respected veterinary association in the United States is cautioning that the California ballot initiative, Proposition 2, while admirable in its attempt to address the behavioral needs of animals, contains livestock confinement standards that may hurt the animals they are intended to help. The American ...