FUSARIUM MYCOTOXINS FROM PEANUTS SUSPECTED AS A CAUSE OF SANDHILL CRANE MORTALITY
| Autor: | Ronald M. Windingstad, Ronnie R. George, Thomas J. Roffe, Paul E. Nelson, Richard J. Cole, Joe W. Dorner |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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Fusarium Veterinary medicine Wet weather Arachis Climate New Mexico Trichothecene Birds chemistry.chemical_compound Sandhill Animals Mycotoxin Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Waste Products Ecology biology Bird Diseases food and beverages Grus (genus) biology.organism_classification Texas chemistry Submandibular edema Female Seasons Trichothecenes Sesquiterpenes Sandhill crane |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 25:38-46 |
| ISSN: | 0090-3558 |
| DOI: | 10.7589/0090-3558-25.1.38 |
| Popis: | An estimated 9,500 sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) died in Gaines County, Texas and Roosevelt County, New Mexico between 1982 and 1987. The predominant clinical sign observed in sick cranes was their inability to hold their heads erect, both while standing and flying. Multiple muscle hemorrhages and submandibular edema were the most common lesions seen at necropsy. Mycotoxins produced by Fusarium sp. growing during cold, wet weather on peanuts left in the field after harvest, the predominant foods of the dead cranes at the time of these mortality events, were identified as the most likely cause of this mortality. Rendering moldy peanuts inaccessible to the cranes by conventional tillage resulted in reduced crane mortality in these areas. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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