Red-Backed Vole with a Tick Attached Near Eyeball

Seasonal variation of myoglobin in the northern red-backed vole.

MORRISON, PETER, MARIO ROSENMANN, AND JOHN A. SEALANDER. Seasonal variation of myoglobin in the northern redbacked vole. Am. J. Physiol. 2 I I (6) : 1305-1308. 1966.-A marked increase in myoglobin concentration was observed in thigh muscle (I. 3 -+ 3.2 mg/g) and masseter (4.7 -+ 10.1 mg/g) from northern red-backed voles (Clethrionomys rutilus dawsoni) during winter (Jan.-Feb.) as compared with ...

Frenkelia sp. from the red-backed vole, Clethrionomys rufocanus bedfordiae, in Hokkaido, Japan.

Population limitation of the northern red-backed vole in the boreal forests of northern Canada.

1. Across the vast boreal forests of North America, no population cycles in Clethrionomys species occur. In Eurasia, by contrast, some Clethrionomys populations of the same species undergo regular 3-5-year cycles. We examined the effects of nutrients, food, competitors, predators and climate on population limitation in the northern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys rutilus Pallas) in the south-wes...

Postglacial expansion of the southern red-backed vole (Clethrionomys gapperi) in North America.

Dynamic climatic oscillations of the Pleistocene dramatically changed the distributions of high latitude species. Molecular investigations of a variety of organisms show that processes of postglacial colonization of boreal regions were more complex than initially thought. Phylogeographical and coalescent analyses were conducted on partial sequences of the cytochrome b gene (600 bp) from 64 indi...

Red-Backed Vole Brain Promotes Highly Efficient In Vitro Amplification of Abnormal Prion Protein from Macaque and Human Brains Infected with Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Agent

Rapid antemortem tests to detect individuals with transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) would contribute to public health. We investigated a technique known as protein misfolding cyclic amplification (PMCA) to amplify abnormal prion protein (PrP(TSE)) from highly diluted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD)-infected human and macaque brain homogenates, seeking to improve the rapid...