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Evidence Of Natural Bluetongue Virus Infection Among African Carnivores, Kathleen A. Alexander, N. James Maclachlan, Pieter W. Kat, Carol House, Stephen J. O'Brien, Nicholas W. Lerche, Mary Sawyer, Laurence G. Frank, Kay Holekamp, Laura Smale, J. Weldon Mcnutt, M. Karen Laurenson, M. G. L. Mills, Bennie I. Osburn
Evidence Of Natural Bluetongue Virus Infection Among African Carnivores, Kathleen A. Alexander, N. James Maclachlan, Pieter W. Kat, Carol House, Stephen J. O'Brien, Nicholas W. Lerche, Mary Sawyer, Laurence G. Frank, Kay Holekamp, Laura Smale, J. Weldon Mcnutt, M. Karen Laurenson, M. G. L. Mills, Bennie I. Osburn
Biology Faculty Articles
Bluetongue is an International Office of Epizootics List A disease described as the century's most economically devastating affliction of sheep. Bluetongue (BLU) viruses were thought to infect only ruminants, shrews, and some rodents, but recently, inadvertent administration of BLU virus-contaminated vaccine resulted in mortality and abortion among domestic dogs. We present evidence of natural BLU virus infection among African carnivores that dramatically widens the spectrum of susceptible hosts. We hypothesize that such infection occurred after ingestion of meat and organs from BLU virus infected prey species. The effect of BLU virus on endangered carnivores such as the cheetah and African …
A Lion Lentivirus Related To Feline Immunodeficiency Virus: Epidemiologic And Phylogenetic Aspects, Eric W. Brown, Naoya Yuhki, Craig Packer, Stephen J. O'Brien
A Lion Lentivirus Related To Feline Immunodeficiency Virus: Epidemiologic And Phylogenetic Aspects, Eric W. Brown, Naoya Yuhki, Craig Packer, Stephen J. O'Brien
Biology Faculty Articles
Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a novel lentivirus that is genetically homologous and functionally analogous to the human AIDS viruses, human immunodeficiency virus types 1 and 2. FIV causes immunosuppression in domestic cats by destroying the CD4 T-lymphocyte subsets in infected hosts. A serological survey of over 400 free-ranging African and Asian lions (Panthera leo) for antibodies to FIV revealed endemic lentivirus prevalence with an incidence of seropositivity as high as 90%o. A lion lentivirus (FIV-Ple) was isolated by infection of lion lymphocytes in vitro. Seroconversion was documented in two Serengeti lions, and discordance of mother-cub serological status …
Port Everglades Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Monitoring Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages At The Southport Turning Basin And Adjacent Areas Of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area: January 1994, Charles G. Messing, Richard E. Dodge
Port Everglades Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Monitoring Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages At The Southport Turning Basin And Adjacent Areas Of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area: January 1994, Charles G. Messing, Richard E. Dodge
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports
This report documents the January 1994 monitoring of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Port Everglades Southport turning basin vicinity and adjacent areas of John U. Uoyd State Recreation Area. This is the sixth monitoring effort of the series carried out by Nova Southeastern University Oceanographic Center. Sampling was carried out chiefly during 8- 25 January. Hand collections and a few crab survey stations were delayed until 16-25 February due totides and weather.
Parameterization Of The Cool Skin Of The Ocean And Of The Air-Ocean Gas Transfer On The Basis Of Modeling Surface Renewal, Alexander Soloviev, Peter Schlüssel
Parameterization Of The Cool Skin Of The Ocean And Of The Air-Ocean Gas Transfer On The Basis Of Modeling Surface Renewal, Alexander Soloviev, Peter Schlüssel
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Heat and gas transport in molecular sublayers at the air-sea interface is governed by similar laws. A model of renewal type based on the physics of molecular sublayers allows the derivation of a parameterization of the temperature difference across the cool skin of the ocean and of the coefficient of the direct air-sea gas transfer. The surface Richardson number controls the transition from convective instability to wind-induced instability (“rollers” on breaking wavelets) and the Keulegan number controls the transition from the regime of rollers to long-wave breaking. A critical value of the surface Richardson number and of a nondimensional constant …
Decade-Scale Trend In Sea Water Salinity Revealed Through Δ18o Analysis Of Montastraea Annularis Annual Growth Bands, Robert B. Halley, Peter Koenraad Swart, Richard E. Dodge, Harold J. Hudson
Decade-Scale Trend In Sea Water Salinity Revealed Through Δ18o Analysis Of Montastraea Annularis Annual Growth Bands, Robert B. Halley, Peter Koenraad Swart, Richard E. Dodge, Harold J. Hudson
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
Stable oxygen isotope ratios (δ18O) of coral skeletons are influenced by ambient water temperature and by the oxygen isotope ratio in the surrounding sea water, which, in turn, is linked to evaporation (salinity) and precipitation. To investigate this relationship more thoroughly, we collected hourly temperature data from the Hen and Chickens Reef in the Florida Keys between 1975 and 1988 and compared them to the δ18O of Montastraea annularis skeleton that grew during the same interval. To ensure that we obtained the correct oxygen isotopic range in the skeleton we typically sampled the coral at a …
Phylogenetic Associations Of Human And Simian T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphotropic Virus Type I Strains: Evidence For Interspecies Transmission, Igor J. Koralnik, Enzo Boeri, W. Carl Saxinger, Anita Lo Monico, Jake Fullen, Antoine Gessain, Hong-Guang Guo, Robert C. Gallo, Phillip Markham, Vaniambadi Kalyanaraman, Vanessa Hirsch, Jonathan Allan, Krishna Murthy, Patricia Alford, Jill Pecon-Slattery, Stephen J. O'Brien, Genoveffa Ranchini
Phylogenetic Associations Of Human And Simian T-Cell Leukemia/Lymphotropic Virus Type I Strains: Evidence For Interspecies Transmission, Igor J. Koralnik, Enzo Boeri, W. Carl Saxinger, Anita Lo Monico, Jake Fullen, Antoine Gessain, Hong-Guang Guo, Robert C. Gallo, Phillip Markham, Vaniambadi Kalyanaraman, Vanessa Hirsch, Jonathan Allan, Krishna Murthy, Patricia Alford, Jill Pecon-Slattery, Stephen J. O'Brien, Genoveffa Ranchini
Biology Faculty Articles
Homologous env sequences from 17 human T-leukemia/lymphotropic virus type I (HTLV-I) strains from throughout the world and from 25 simian T-leukemia/lymphotropic virus type I (STLV-I) strains from 12 simian species in Asia and Africa were analyzed in a phylogenetic context as an approach to resolving the natural history of these related retroviruses. STLV-I exhibited greater overall sequence variation between strains (1 to 18% compared with 0 to 9% for HTLV-I), supporting the simian origin of the modern viruses in all species. Three HTLV-I phylogenetic clusters or clades (cosmopolitan, Zaire, and Melanesia) were resolved with phenetic, parsimony, and likelihood analytical procedures. …
Port Everglades Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Monitoring Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages At The Southport Turning Basin And Adjacent Areas Of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area: August 1993 (Including A Summary Of Previous Survey Results, 1991-1993), Charles G. Messing, Richard E. Dodge
Port Everglades Macroinvertebrate Monitoring: Monitoring Of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblages At The Southport Turning Basin And Adjacent Areas Of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area: August 1993 (Including A Summary Of Previous Survey Results, 1991-1993), Charles G. Messing, Richard E. Dodge
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports
This report documents the August 1993 monitoring of benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in the Port Everglades Southport turning basin vicinity and adjacent areas of John U. Lloyd State Recreation Area. This is the fifth monitoring effort of the series carried out by Nova University Oceanographic Center. Sampling was carried out chiefly during 2-12 August. Hand collections and a few crab survey stations were delayed until 2-12 October primarily because of weather and tidal constraints.
Evaluation Of A Novel Material For Recycling Tires Into Artificial Reefs Second Year Annual Report, Richard E. Spieler
Evaluation Of A Novel Material For Recycling Tires Into Artificial Reefs Second Year Annual Report, Richard E. Spieler
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Reports
Four artificial reefs were placed off Broward County in 20 ft of water on 29 March 1993. The reefs were constructed of concrete aggregate tetrahedrons. Each reef contains 25 small ( 3ft/side) and 25 large (4 ft/side) tetrahedrons in a random configuration. Two types of concrete aggregate were used . One is a tire-concrete aggregate which uses tire shreds mixed into the concrete; the other is a standard gravel-concrete aggregate. Two reefs are composed of each type of aggregate . The purpose of the study is to evaluate the tire aggregate, in comparison to standard concrete, as a suitable reef …
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Taking A Cat Map: Genome Analysis By Supercomputer, Jose V. Lopez
Taking A Cat Map: Genome Analysis By Supercomputer, Jose V. Lopez
Marine & Environmental Sciences Faculty Articles
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