Influence of imported sport horses on the genetic evaluation of Swedish Warmblood stallions     

M. Pettersson  S. Eriksson 《Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A - Animal Sciences》2016,66(4):183-189

There is substantial international influence on the Swedish Warmblood (SWB) sport horse population. The SWB Association suspects that imported horses are pre-selected based on their anticipated performance level, which could lead to biased estimated breeding values (EBVs) for stallions. This study examined different strategies to handle records for imported horses in the genetic evaluation. The stallions were evaluated for 10 traits using 3 different EBV estimation methods that were compared based on ranking comparisons of stallions, accuracy, correlations and absolute differences between EBVs. The results showed that the stallions’ EBVs were affected by imported offspring which, as a group, had higher average scores than horses born in Sweden. Sire EBVs differed by up to 0.6 genetic standard deviation of the trait between methods for stallions with >50% imported offspring. Excluding imported offspring lowered the accuracies and caused larger re-ranking compared with including a fixed effect of origin in the model.  相似文献   

Emended descriptions of indole negative and indole positive isolates of Brachyspira (Serpulina) hyodysenteriae     

Fellström C  Karlsson M  Pettersson B  Zimmerman U  Gunnarsson A  Aspan A 《Veterinary microbiology》1999,70(3-4):225-238

Two type/reference strains of Brachyspira (B.) hyodysenteriae, 14 Belgian and German indole negative, and 14 Belgian, German and Swedish indole positive field isolates of strongly β-haemolytic intestinal spirochaetes were compared by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) patterns, biochemical reaction patterns, 16S rDNA sequences and MIC determinations of six antibacterial substances. Three tests for indole production, including a spot indole test, were compared with congruent results. All field isolates were classified as B. hyodysenteriae due to a high genetic and phenotypic similarity with the type strains. The Belgian and German indole negative isolates had identical and unique PFGE patterns for the tested restriction enzymes MluI and SalI, as well as identical 16S rDNA sequences, and they could not be differentiated by any of the methods used. Seven unique PFGE patterns were achieved from the 14 indole positive field isolates. The patterns were identical and unique for epidemiologically related isolates. Type/reference strains and isolates without known relation to other tested isolates showed unique banding patterns. The MICs of tylosin, tiamulin, erythromycin, clindamycin, carbadox and virginiamycin were determined in broth for all isolates. In contrast to Belgian and German isolates, the majority of the Swedish field isolates were susceptible to tylosin, erythromycin and clindamycin. Probable pathways of infection for some of the Swedish isolates were determined. The PFGE patterns of epidemic clones of B. hyodysenteriae remained stable for a period of up to 8 years. In vivo development of resistance to macrolide and lincosamide antibiotics due to use of tylosin was clearly indicated for two epidemic clones.  相似文献   

Outcome and racing performance after internal fixation of third and central tarsal bone slab fractures in horses. A review of 20 cases     

Winberg FG  Pettersson H 《Acta veterinaria Scandinavica》1999,40(2):173-180

Twenty horses with central and third tarsal bone slab fractures, were treated internal fixation. Eighteen of the 20 cases were Standardbred trotters, one was a Thoroughbred racehorse and one a Swedish Warmblood. The central tarsal bone (CT) was involved in 12 cases and the third tarsal bone (T3) in 8 cases. The fractures were treated by lag screw fixation with one (18 cases) or two (2 cases) 3.5 or 4.5 mm cortical screws. Horses were confined to stall rest for one month and then put on a gradually increasing exercise programme. Convalescence time was 3-8 months until the fracture had healed and training could be resumed. Fifteen of the horses regained athletic soundness. Thirteen of the horses (72%) raced after surgery (12 Standardbreds and 1 Thoroughbred). Nine (69%) of these 13 horses won races after surgery.  相似文献   

Svend Dalgaard-Mikkelsen     

Rasmussen F 《Historia medicinae veterinariae》2002,27(5-6):329-332

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Quantifying the nitrogen retention capacity of natural wetlands in the large-scale drainage basin of the Baltic Sea   总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3  

Jansson  Åsa  Folke  Carl  Langaas  Sindre 《Landscape Ecology》1998,13(4):249-262

We estimate the nitrogen retention capacity of natural wetlands in the 1.7 million km² Baltic Sea drainage basin, using a wetland GIS data base. There are approximately 138,000 km² of wetlands (bogs and fens) in the Baltic Sea drainage basin, corresponding to 8% of the area. The input of nitrogen to natural wetlands from atmospheric deposition was estimated to 55,000–161,000 ton y¹. A map of the deposition of both wet and dry nitrogen is presented. The input from the human population was estimated to 255,000 ton y¹ in terms of excretory release in processed sewage water. There may also be leakage from forests and agricultural land into the wetlands. Due to lack of data on hydrology and topography, such potential nitrogen sources are not accounted for here. The capacity of the wetlands to retain the atmospheric deposition of nitrogen was estimated to 34,000–99,000 ton y¹. The potential retention by wetlands was estimated to 57,000–145,000 ton y¹ when the nitrogen input from the human population was added. If drained wetlands were to be restored and their area added to the present wetland area, the nitrogen retention capacity was estimated to increase to 196,000–261,000 ton y¹. Our results indicate that existing natural wetlands in the Baltic Sea drainage basin annually can retain an amount of nitrogen which corresponds to about 5–13% of annual total (natural and anthropogenic) nitrogen emissions entering the Baltic Sea. The ecosystem retention service performed by wetlands accounts for a substantial nitrogen removal, thereby reducing the eutrophication of the Baltic Sea.  相似文献   

Tracer Dyes Food Green No. 4 and Food Blue No. 3 in Antibiotic and Chemotherapeutic Preparations for Intramammary Application Iv     

Peter Hgh  Folke Rasmussen 《Acta veterinaria Scandinavica》1965,6(1):178

Comparison has been made between Food Green No. 4 and Food Blue No. 3 as tracer dyes for indirect detection of the drugs in milk after intramammary application of a number of commonly used preparations containing antibiotics and chemotherapeutic agents.The tracer dyes had no effect on the stability of the preparations containing penicillin, penicillin ester, and sulphonamide (I, II, III, V and VI) ; after six months’ storage at room temperature, 75 to 100 per cent of the drugs could be recovered. The Oxytetracycline content in preparation IV recovered by 70 to 100 per cent after two months. There were great differences in the irritating effect of the various preparations, as determined by the cell counts of the milk, but the addition of tracer dye did not alter this effect. A direct relationship was demonstrated between concentrations of, on the one hand, tracer dye and, on the other hand, penicillin (preparations I, II, and III), Oxytetracycline (preparation IV) and sulphonamide (preparations V and VI) in milk from ten treated cows.In all quarter samples tracer dye could be demonstrated for just as long as the drugs, and often one or two milkings longer. Thus the experiments confirm the great certainty with which triphenylmethane dyes can reveal indirectly the presence of very small residues of antibiotics and sulphonamides in the milk after intramammary infusion.  相似文献   

Discrimination of Aphid Mutualists by an Ant Based on Chemical Cues     

R. Glinwood  J. Willekens  J. Pettersson 《Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B - Plant Soil Science》2013,63(4):177-182

A chemical basis for discrimination between attended and unattended aphid mutualists by the ant Lasius niger (L.) (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) was investigated. In an arena bioassay, hexane extracts of the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi (L.) (Homoptera, Aphididae), which had been attended by the ant colony provoked significantly longer examination by ants than extracts of unattended aphids. Extracts of the ants themselves were significantly more active than hexane. In an olfactometer, ants spent significantly longer in the arm containing the odour of live aphids that had been attended by the ants than in arms containing the odour of unattended aphids. When unattended aphids were introduced onto an aphid-infested plant under attendance by L. niger, they suffered higher levels of attack and removal by the ants than did previously attended aphids. Unattended aphids treated with the extract of attended aphids suffered higher levels of attack than attended aphids, but lower levels of removal than unattended aphids. The results show that L. niger can discriminate between aphids that the colony have attended and unattended aphids of the same species using chemical cues.  相似文献   

Prediction of grain protein in spring malting barley grown in northern Europe   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

C.G. Pettersson  H. Eckersten 《European Journal of Agronomy》2007,27(2-4):205-214

The ability to predict grain protein concentration at harvest (CP) in Swedish malting barley (Hordeum distichum) from observations of soil conditions, sowing day, fertilisation rate, remote sensing at early stem elongation and the temperature sum during grain filling, was tested for two cultivars; Astoria (Secobra, France) and Wikingett (Svalöf-Weibulls, Sweden) in 16 fertilisation trials in southern Sweden, encompassing 3 years (2001–2003). Fertilisation was applied either as a single dose at sowing, or as both a starting application and an application at early stem elongation. The highest total application rate was 160 kg N ha⁻¹ y⁻¹. The soil was analysed for phosphorus, potassium, magnesium and calcium in the layer 0–0.3 m, and mineral N down to 0.6 m. Canopy reflectance observations at BBCH 32 was used to calculate a vegetation index (TCARI(32)) to reflect the canopy (leaf and straw) chlorophyll concentration. Harvested grain CP correlated only marginally with the observed soil variables. It was, however, for a specific cultivar, possible to make a prediction of grain CP based on day of sowing and TCARI(32) with . Part of the sowing day effect might be due to thermal stress during grain filling, as the risk for high temperatures during this phase was higher when sowing was late. This might also explain why the introduction of accumulated temperature during grain filling, into a model already including sowing day and TCARI(32) as independent variables, did not improve the predictability of grain CP.  相似文献   

Output of methylmercury from a Catchment in northern Sweden     

Y. H. Lee  K. Bishop  H. Hultberg  C. Pettersson  Å. Iverfeldt  B. Allard 《Water, air, and soil pollution》1995,80(1-4):477-481

The runoff output of methylmercury (MeHg) from the 50 ha Svartberget Catchment in northern Sweden was studied during 1993. These outputs are compared to those from the Gårdsjön Catchment in the southwestern part of Sweden. Although the wet deposition of MeHg is several times higher in southern Sweden the output of MeHg per unit area from the two catchments was comparable (0.12 g /km_* ²yr). Furthermore, the concentration of MeHg (0.4 ng/L) in the Svartberget Catchment was more than twice that from the Gårdsjön Catchment. These results suggest that the contemporary wet deposition of MeHg in itself is not a good indicator of runoff concentration or output per unit area. DOC transport and catchment characteristics such as wetland area, or possibly other forms of contemporary atmospheric deposition may all be more important for explaining MeHg output from the terrestrial ecosystem.  相似文献   

Liquid chromatographic determination of the estrogens daidzein, formononetin, coumestrol, and equol in bovine blood plasma and urine     

T J Lundh  H Pettersson  K H Kiessling 《Journal of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists》1988,71(5):938-941

A liquid chromatographic (LC) method is described for the determination of the plant estrogens diadzein, formononetin, and coumestrol and the estrogenically active metabolite equol in bovine blood plasma and urine. The blood and urine samples are incubated overnight with and without beta-glucuronidase/sulfatase for analysis of both free and conjugated forms of estrogens. Samples are applied to Extrelut columns, extracted with ethyl acetate, and evaporated to dryness. Residues from urine samples are dissolved in methanol, diluted with water, acidified with HCl, and purified by injection through a Sep-Pak C18 cartridge. This eluate is used for LC analysis. Residues from blood samples are dissolved in benzene-petroleum ether (1 + 1), extracted with ammonium hydroxide, acidified with glacial acetic acid, and extracted with ethyl acetate. The ethyl acetate extract is evaporated, dissolved in 80% methanol, injected onto a LC reverse-phase column, and separated in a linear gradient system between 40 and 80% methanol in phosphate buffer. Quantitation is performed by means of UV and fluorescence responses. The method was sensitive enough to determine 0.4 ng/mL of daidzein and formononetin and 0.1 and 13 ng/mL of coumestrol and equol, respectively, in blood, and 130, 80, and 7 ng/mL of daidzein, formononetin, and coumestrol, respectively, and 4 micrograms/mL of equol in urine. The applicability of the method was checked by the determination of total and free plant estrogens in blood samples from a dairy cow fed a normal diet.  相似文献