Avian incubation

Influenza is a disease that has been around for decades and many people know what it is or at least have heard about and it. In the United States, an average of five to ten percent of the inhabitants will contract influenza. Influenza is a prominent and well-known disease that has proven to have caused death and illness to various people across the world. Influenza is a respiratory illness that is caused by getting infected with viruses from Influenza family. Due to Influenza being a disease…

influenza, or CIV for short, is an emerging pathogen that produces an acute respiratory infection in dogs. Originally, the hosts of the influenza virus were equine and avian animals who then passed the virus onto canines (Wang et al. 1). It is highly contagious and has two main causative strains. The H3N2 strain comes from avian animals, and the H3N8 strain comes from equine animals. The H3N2 strain of CIV first appeared in a limited capacity in 2007 in Asia until 2015, when it made its…

This research needs to be expanded all over the world to gain more knowledge of avian responses at a geographic scale. Most research has been on single study sites, so the scope needs to be broadened. Ecological and evolutionary knowledge of plasticity in fluctuating environments is required for predicting the effects of climate change…

VII Enkidu foresees his death through the symbolic dream of the underworld. Enkidu dreams of a man with “a somber face, a face like the lion-headed monster-bird Anzu” in the underworld, and the dead was “dressed like birds in feather garments,” The avian reference reflects a symbolic associate with birds and the souls of the dead. In ancient Egypt the belief was that the human soul was made up for five parts. The Ba being one of the five parts was what makes up a person’s personality. The Ba was…

The incidence rate of WNV in Dallas County in 2012 was 7.30 per 100,00 residents– a total of 398 cases reported (7, 10). In this paper, my study area and year are Dallas County, Texas in 2012. Dallas County, Texas had 167 positive mosquito pools, no avian positive cases, 3 equine cases (3). Mosquito Species of Interest Amongst the mosquito species infected with WNV in Dallas County, the C. quinquefasciatus (southern horse mosquito) was the most prevalent (7, 32). The southern horse mosquito is…

the food web because it doesn’t have many predators including humans not only due to its foul smell but also horrible taste. Hoatzin is vulnerable to nest predation. Eggs and chicks are preyed upon by monkeys, tayras and other mammals, but also by avian predators such as falcons, hawks and eagles. Awkward and unconventional though their lifestyle is, the hoatzin is nonetheless a very successful bird. Leaves, while notoriously difficult to digest, are plentiful and available all year round. And…

The yellow-shouldered blackbird (Agelaius xanthomus) is indigenous to the island of Puerto Rico. It is speculated that this species is derived from the red-winged blackbird which is native to the Haitian Island. Physically the yellow-shouldered blackbird looks just like it sounds, black with brachial yellow patches around the shoulders of the bird. The males are usually larger,heavier and have larger wings than the females of the species. On average the adult birds measure between twenty to…

Sexual differentiation in monomorphic avian species Madeleine Evans ID: 213023921, Deakin University Waurn Ponds, Course S323 Biomedical Science, Subject SLE254 Genetic Introduction Sexual differentiation is one of the first biological processes to occur during the development of a foetus. There are a variety of methods for sex determination amongst vertebrates including analysis of primary and secondary differentiations. Primary differentiation refers to the presence of gonads, while secondary…

Coronavirus comes from the family of coronaviridae, they are pathogens found in birds and mammals. Coronaviruses is a positive sense RNA virus and it was classified into four genera: Alphacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus, Gammacoronavirus, Betacoronavirus. There are many human types of the virus, for example, MERS-CoV, and SARS-CoV. SARS-CoV is a Severe acute respiratory syndrome. The Severe acute respiratory was found in 2003 when it first hit China and caused a big outbreak. Studies have shown…

(Bucephala albeola) Bufflehead, short term for (Buffalo-Head). Commonly known as the butterballs of North American waterfowl. Dating back to 500,000 years ago lie fossil remains of these little divers in Alaska, California, Illinois, Texas, Kansas, and Washington. Generally living in North America, yet some occasionally arrive in Iceland, Japan, and Greenland. Buffleheads are native to North America. "Buffleheads have an extensive breeding range, with particularly high densities across the…