We quantified reservoir host use as the number of hispid
cotton rat or cotton mouse blood meals per resting shelter per day.
Caption: Phython impacts on mammal Populations seem to have been Skirted by the
cotton rat, left, a Reservoir for Everglades virus.
Cotton rats accounted for 70% of rodent prey and mice 20%.
Results--In 3,777 trap nights we captured 311 small mammals of five species (Table 1), listed in decreasing order of abundance: hispid
cotton rat (S.
Distribution and ecology of the hispid and least
cotton rats in New Mexico.
The impact of climatic extremes on
cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) populations.
Although Peter's climbing rat and hispid
cotton rat were represented in trapping and pellets, they showed inverse abundance patterns: we captured only one specimen of the former, and two of the latter.
Methods: Microfilaraemic
cotton rats and Mastomys coucha harbouring Litomosoides sigmodontis and Brugia malayi respectively, were treated with crude extract or fractions of the seed kernel C.
* Studies in the
Cotton Rat that show Viprovex enhances the efficacy and safety of Roche's Tamiflu(r), a neuraminidase inhibitor used to combat influenza which is stockpiled by governments around the world to treat potential pandemic avian influenza outbreaks.
Specifically, Flannery compared the percentages of the presence of
cotton rat, kangaroo rat, and deer mouse in the Early Ajuereado time period (30,000 B.C.
Other rodent species known to carry HPS-associated hantaviruses include the rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) and
cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus) [5,6].
Cotton rat density and distribution.--Averaged across the entire site,
cotton rat density was roughly equivalent in each successional phase (Fig.