School of Life and Environmental Sciences: Recent submissions
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Using transrectal ultrasound to examine the effect of exogenous progesterone on early embryonic loss in sheep
Published 2017-08-11The financial impact of early embryonic loss in Australia may be as high as $137 million AUD/year. Embryos may be lost due to environmental conditions, or maternal factors such as nutrition or progesterone (P4) profiles. ...Open AccessDataset -
Two Z stacks from the coelomic development of the planktotrophic larva of the sea urchin Heliocidaris tuberculata recorded by high resolution confocal laser scanning microscopy, published in Morris et al. (2019)
Published 2018-01-24The Z stacks are those from which figure 2b,c of a 24 hour larva and figure 5a-e and 5g,h of a 55 hour larva in Morris et al. (2019) were constructed. The Z stack of figure 2b shows cells at the head of the archenteron ...Open AccessDataset -
Adjusting cryodiluent composition for improved post-thaw quality of rabbit spermatozoa
Published 2017-02-27Improved fertility following artificial insemination with frozen-thawed spermatozoa would offer rabbit producers faster genetic improvement. Previous work investigating cryoprotectants for rabbit spermatozoa have reported ...Open AccessDataset -
Dataset: Food quality and conspicuousness shape improvements in olfactory discrimination by mice
Published 2016-12-21How animals locate nutritious but camouflaged prey items with increasing accuracy is not well understood. Olfactory foraging is common in vertebrates and the nutritional desirability of food should influence the salience ...Open AccessDataset -
Nest Predation by Commensal Rodents in Urban Bushland Remnants
Published 2016-05-27Exotic predators are a major threat to native wildlife in many parts of the world. Developing and implementing effective strategies to mitigate their effects requires robust quantitative data so that management can be ...Open AccessDataset