New Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance measures are now in effect for Henderson, Union and Webster counties, ...

New baiting rules and anterless-only season aim to help control disease and manage deer populations for 2025–2026.

Officials say new Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance measures are now in effect for Henderson, Union and Webster ...

Background/aim: Interleukin 31 (IL31), primarily expressed in activated lymphocytes, signals through a heterodimeric receptor complex consisting of the IL31 receptor alpha (IL31Rα) and the oncostatin ...

Known as the Ecosystems Mission Area, the program is part of the U.S. Geological Survey and ... disease in Colorado’s rainbow trout, chronic wasting disease in Minnesota’s white-tailed deer ...

The indirect strategy thus employs a dense map of polymorphic markers to scan the genome systematically for regions associated with disease. Biallelic single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs ...

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But no federal conservation realm is arguably at greater risk than the U.S. Geological Survey's ... white-nose syndrome in bats and chronic wasting disease in deer, for example.

Chronic wasting disease—a deadly neurological prion disease ... of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the U.S. Geological Survey's Cooperative Research Units, nearly 400 private ...