Meleagris gallopavo

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Noun

Meleagris gallopavo - large gallinaceous bird with fan-shaped tail; widely domesticated for food

turkey

domestic fowl, fowl, poultry - a domesticated gallinaceous bird thought to be descended from the red jungle fowl

genus Meleagris, Meleagris - type genus of the Meleagrididae: wild and domestic turkeys

tom turkey, turkey cock, gobbler, tom - male turkey

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Extragonadal teratoma in a domestic turkey (Meleagris gallopavo domestica).

Recurrent Subcutaneous Teratoma in an Adult Red-crowned Amazon Parrot (Amazona viridigenalis)

Evidence for the innervation of sperm storage tubules in the oviduct of the turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).

Chicken Embryo Fibroblasts are Effective Cells to Study the Function of Chicken Neurexophilin 1 Gene

Dubey, "Sarcocystis-associated encephalitis and myocarditis in a wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo)," Journal of Parasitology, vol.

Prevalence of Toxoplasma gondii, Neospora caninum, and Sarcocystis Species DNA in the Heart and Breast Muscles of Rock Pigeons (Columbia livia)

Experimental Toxoplasma gondii oocyst infections in turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo).

Beyaz Hindilerde Deneysel Toksoplazmozis

We further determined the distribution of top hit species based on nr annotation and found that 43% of total annotated unigenes were similar to Gallus gallus sequences, followed by Meleagris gallopavo (15%), Anolis carolinensis (6%), and Monode lphisdomestica (4%) (Figure 3A).

Transcriptome analysis of the livers of ducklings hatched normally and with assistance

hominivorax y otros dipteros en aves de interes pecuario (e.g., pollos, patos: Anas platyrhinchos domesticus , pavos: Meleagris gallopavo); desinformacion que no se comprende, toda vez que es bien conocido la importancia de las aves de corral, especialmente pollos y gallinas, para la explotacion avicola de alta produccion y los sistemas tradicionales, y la de los gallos de pelea o lidia como una actividad recreativa muy popular que genera numerosos empleos directos e indirectos [4,14].

Miiasis traumatica por Cochliomyia hominivorax (diptera: calliphoridae) en un gallo. Nota tecnica

Wild turkeys Meleagris gallopavo have historically been an important species present in longleaf pine savannas, and are adapted to the early-successional understory conditions created by periodic fire that also promotes insect abundance (Hurst 1981, McGlincy 1985, Landers and Mueller 1986, Exum 1988, Provencher et al.

Survival and cause-specific mortality of female eastern wild turkeys in two frequently-burned longleaf pine savannas

Blood was obtained from 176 wild turkeys (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) at Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency check stations and live-captured birds in middle Tennessee.

Detection of spotted fever group Rickettsiae in birds and ticks in Tennessee

There are a couple of key attributes to know about the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo).