Abstracts of the Reproduction section presented during the 8th World Rabbit Congress, Puebla, Mexico 7-10. 2004

(2005). Abstracts of the Reproduction section presented during the 8th World Rabbit Congress, Puebla, Mexico 7-10. 2004. World Rabbit Science. 13. doi:10.4995/wrs.2005.512SWORD1

Book review: L'allevamento ecologico del coniglio (Organic rabbit farming)

González-Redondo, P. (2011). Book review: L'allevamento ecologico del coniglio (Organic rabbit farming). World Rabbit Science. 19(3). doi:10.4995/wrs.2011.869.SWORD19

Introduction and Expression of a Rabbit β-globin Gene in Mouse Fibroblasts

The cloned chromosomal rabbit ß-globin gene has been introduced into mouse fibroblasts by DNA-mediated gene transfer (transformation). In this report, we examine the expression of the rabbit gene in six independent transformants that contain from 1 to 20 copies of the cloned globin gene. Rabbit globin transcripts were detected in two of these transformants at steady-state concentrations of 5 and 2 copies per cell. The globin transcripts from one cell line are polyadenylylated and migrate as 9S RNA on methylmercury gels. These transcripts reflect correct processing of the two intervening sequences but lack 48 ± 5 nucleotides present at the 5' terminus of rabbit erythrocyte globin mRNA

Prevalence of Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD) in wild rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) in Flanders, Belgium, 1999-2002

During the period of July 1999 through June 2002, carcasses of wild rabbits that had been shot or found dead and livers originating from wild rabbits that had been shot for consumption were collected in Flanders. One hundred and twelve carcasses were suitable for necropsy and histological and bacteriological analysis; histological analysis was possible in 41 livers. Considering the 112 rabbit carcasses only, Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHD) was found to be present in 33.9% of the cases. RHD was the most prevalent wild rabbit pathology detected in this study, before staphylococcosis (12.5%), and myxomatosis (10.7%). None of the liver samples from rabbits shot for consumption were positive for RHD. Of the 38 histologically RHD positive samples, 24 were analyzed with the hemagglutination (HA) technique, yielding 58.3% positive results. Seven samples that were histologically positive for RHD but HA negative were examined by transmission electron microscopy and were found positive for calicivirus. This proves that HA-negative RHD strains are circulating in the Flemish wild rabbit population

Computational Studies of the Structural Stability of Rabbit Prion Protein Compared to Human and Mouse Prion Proteins

Prion diseases are invariably fatal and highly infectious neurodegenerative diseases affecting humans and animals. The neurodegenerative diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, Gerstmann-Str$\ddot{a}$ussler-Scheinker syndrome, Fatal Familial Insomnia, Kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (or 'mad-cow' disease) and chronic wasting disease in cattle belong to prion diseases. By now there have not been some effective therapeutic approaches to treat all these prion diseases. Dogs, rabbits and horses were reported to be resistant to prion diseases. By the end of year 2010 all the NMR structures of dog, rabbit and horse prion proteins (X-ray for rabbits too) had been finished to release into protein data bank. Thus, at this moment it is very worth studying the NMR and X-ray molecular structures of horse, dog and rabbit prion proteins to obtain insights into their immunity prion diseases. The author found that dog and horse prion proteins have stable molecular dynamical structures whether under neutral or low pH environments, but rabbit prion protein has stable molecular dynamical structures only under neutral pH environment. Under low pH environment, the stable $\alpha$-helical molecular structures of rabbit prion protein collapse into $\beta$-sheet structures. This article focuses the studies on rabbit prion protein (within its C-terminal NMR, Homology and X-ray molecular structured region RaPrP$^\text{C}$ (120-230)), compared with human and mouse prion proteins (HuPrP$^\text{C}$ (125-228) and MoPrP$^\text{C}$ (124-226) respectively). The author finds that some salt bridges contribute to the structural stability of rabbit prion protein under neutral pH environment.Comment: Contributed as an invited Book Chapter to "Neurodegenerative Diseases / Book 2, Raymond Chuen-Chung Chang (eds.), INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2011, ISBN 979-953-307-672-9

Counterconditioning

Excerpt: In counterconditioning a maladaptive response is eliminated by establishing a new response in the presence of the stimulus that initially controlled occurrence of the maladaptive response. In a classical study crying in the presence of a rabbit was eliminated by feeding the fearful child and gradually bringing the rabbit into the child\u27s proximity while he ate

A Folk Tale of a Tiger and a Rabbit

In this folk tale, a tiger plans to kill a rabbit, but the rabbit eventually kills the tigerThis collection of 77 audio files focuses on weddings and weddings speeches but also contains: folk tales, folk songs, riddles, tongue twisters, and local history from Bang smad Village and Ri sne Village, Bang smad Township, Nyag rong CountyWorld Oral Literature Projec

Rabbit and Wolf

MP4 video‘Rabbit and Wolf’ was told by Rgyal mtshan in A mdo Tibetan. Rta rgyugs, a subdivision of Rka phug Administrative Village, is a farming village located in Khams ra Town, Gcan tsa County Town, Rma lho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, PR China. In 2010, there were 15 Han Chinese households and 18 Tibetan households in Rta rgyugs Village. The total population was 175 residents (33 households). Most Han Chinese residents were fluent in Tibetan and communicated in Tibetan with local Tibetan villagers. རྐ་ཕུག་སྡེ་བའི་ཁོངས་སུ་གཏོགས་པའི་རྟ་རྒྱུགས་སྡེ་བ་ནི་ཞིང་ལས་གཙོ་བོར་གཉེར་བའི་བོད་སྡེ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ལ། དེ་ནི་ཁམས་ར་གྲོང་བརྡལ་དུ་ཆགས་ཤིང་གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་མཁར་དང་བར་ཐག་སྤྱི་ལེ་༣༥ ལྷག་ཡོད། གཅན་ཚ་རྫོང་ནི་ཀྲུང་གོའི་མཚོ་སྔོན་ཞིང་ཆེན་རྨ་ལྷོ་བོད་རིགས་རང་སྐྱོང་ཁུལ་གྱི་རྫོང་བཞིའི་ཡ་གྱལ་ཞིག་ཡིན་ཏེ། ༢༠༡༠ལོར་རྟ་རྒྱུགས་སྡེ་བར་བསྡོམས་པས་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གསུམ་ཡོད་ལ། དེའི་གྲས་སུ་ཁྱིམ་ཚང་བཅོ་ལྔ་ནི་རྒྱ་རིགས་ཡིན་པ་དང་། ཁྱིམ་ཚང་བཅོ་བརྒྱད་བོད་རིགས་ཡིན། རྒྱའི་མི་ཁྱིམ་ཕལ་ཆེ་བས་བོད་སྐད་བཤད་ཤེས་པ་དང་དུས་རྒྱུན་དུ་བོད་སྐད་བཀོད་སྤྱོད་བྱས་ནས་སྡེ་བའི་ནང་གི་བོད་མི་ཚོར་འབྲེལ་འདྲིས་བྱེད། ད་ལྟ་རྟ་རྒྱུགས་སྡེ་བར་འདུས་སྡོད་བྱེད་པའི་མི་གྲངས་ ༡༧༥ཡིན། Rka phug sde ba'i khongs su gtogs pa'i rta rgyugs sde ba ni zhing las gtso bor gnyer ba'i bod sde zhig yin la/ de ni khams ra grong brdal du chags shing gcan tsha rdzong mkhar dang bar thag spyi le 35 lhag yod/ gcan tsha rdzong ni krung go'i mtsho sngon zhing chen rma lho bod rigs rang skyong khul gyi rdzong bzhi'i ya gyal zhig yin te/ 2010 lor rta rgyugs sde bar bsdoms pas khyim tshang sum cu so gsum yod la/ de'i gras su khyim tshang bco lnga ni rgya rigs yin pa dang/ khyim tshang bco brgyad bod rigs yin/ rgya'i mi khyim phal che bas bod skad bshad shes pa dang dus rgyun du bod skad bkod spyod byas nas sde ba'i nang gi bod mi tshor 'brel 'dris byed/ da lta rta rgyugs sde bar 'dus sdod byed pa'i mi grangs 175yin

Conformational studies of various hemoglobins by natural-abundance 13C NMR spectroscopy

Studies of variously liganded hemoglobins (both from human and rabbit) by natural-abundance 13C NMR spectroscopy have revealed apparent conformational differences that have been interpreted on the basis of two quaternary structures for the α2ß2 tetramer, and variable tertiary structures for the individual α and ß subunits. In solution, rabbit hemoglobins appear to have somewhat more flexibility than human hemoglobins

Constructing rational maps with cluster points using the mating operation

In this article, we show that all admissible rational maps with fixed or period two cluster cycles can be constructed by the mating of polynomials. We also investigate the polynomials which make up the matings that construct these rational maps. In the one cluster case, one of the polynomials must be an $n$-rabbit and in the two cluster case, one of the maps must be either $f$, a "double rabbit", or $g$, a secondary map which lies in the wake of the double rabbit $f$. There is also a very simple combinatorial way of classifiying the maps which must partner the aforementioned polynomials to create rational maps with cluster cycles. Finally, we also investigate the multiplicities of the shared matings arising from the matings in the paper.Comment: 23 page