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Environmental DNA and metagenomics of terrestrial mammals as keystone taxa of recent and past ecosystems by Seeber, Peter A., Epp, Laura S.

“…ABSTRACT Terrestrial mammals shape their ecosystems, and mammalian community assemblages can be important indicators of ecosystem functioning and ecosystem…”
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Noninvasive Detection of Equid Herpesviruses in Fecal Samples by Seeber, Peter A, Dayaram, Anisha, Sicks, Florian, Osterrieder, Nikolaus, Franz, Mathias, Greenwood, Alex D

“…Equid herpesviruses (EHVs) are pathogens of equid and nonequid hosts that can cause disease and fatalities in captivity and in the wild. EHVs establish latent…”
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Environmental Detection and Potential Transmission of Equine Herpesviruses by Dayaram, Anisha, Seeber, Peter A, Greenwood, Alex D

“…Equine herpesviruses (EHV) are a major health concern for domestic and wild equids and represent one of the most economically important disease agents of…”
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Effects of life history stage and climatic conditions on fecal egg counts in plains zebras (Equus quagga) in the Serengeti National Park by Seeber, Peter A., Kuzmina, Tetiana A., Greenwood, Alex D., East, Marion L.

“…In wildlife, endoparasite burden can be affected by host life history stage, environmental conditions, host abundance, and parasite co-infections. We tested…”
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Behavioural inventory of the giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) by Seeber, Peter A, Ciofolo, Isabelle, Ganswindt, André

“…Numerous factors like continuous habitat reduction or fragmentation for free-ranging giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) as well as e.g. suboptimal housing…”
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Physiological costs of infection: herpesvirus replication is linked to blood oxidative stress in equids by Costantini, David, Seeber, Peter A., Soilemetzidou, Sanatana-Eirini, Azab, Walid, Bohner, Julia, Buuveibaatar, Bayarbaatar, Czirják, Gábor Á., East, Marion L., Greunz, Eva Maria, Kaczensky, Petra, Lamglait, Benjamin, Melzheimer, Jörg, Uiseb, Kenneth, Ortega, Alix, Osterrieder, Nikolaus, Sandgreen, Ditte-Mari, Simon, Marie, Walzer, Chris, Greenwood, Alex D.

“…Viruses may have a dramatic impact on the health of their animal hosts. The patho-physiological mechanisms underlying viral infections in animals are, however,…”
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Environmental stressors may cause equine herpesvirus reactivation in captive Grévy's zebras ( Equus grevyi ) by Seeber, Peter A, Quintard, Benoît, Sicks, Florian, Dehnhard, Martin, Greenwood, Alex D, Franz, Mathias

“…Equine Herpesviruses (EHV) are common and often latent pathogens of equids which can cause fatalities when transmitted to non-equids. Stress and elevated…”
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Androgen changes and flexible rutting behaviour in male giraffes by Seeber, Peter A., Duncan, Patrick, Fritz, Hervé, Ganswindt, André

“…The social organization of giraffes (Giraffa camelopardalis) imposes a high-cost reproductive strategy on bulls, which adopt a ‘roving male’ tactic. Our…”
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Equine behavioral enrichment toys as tools for non‐invasive recovery of viral and host DNA by Seeber, Peter A., Soilemetzidou, Sanatana E., East, Marion L., Walzer, Chris, Greenwood, Alex D.

“…Direct collection of samples from wildlife can be difficult and sometimes impossible. Non‐invasive remote sampling for the purpose of DNA extraction is a…”
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Mitochondrial genomes of Pleistocene megafauna retrieved from recent sediment layers of two Siberian lakes by Seeber, Peter Andreas, Batke, Laura, Dvornikov, Yury, Schmidt, Alexandra, Wang, Yi, Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen, Moon, Katie, Vohr, Samuel H, Shapiro, Beth, Epp, Laura S

“…Ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) from lake sediments has yielded remarkable insights for the reconstruction of past ecosystems, including suggestions of late…”
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Grazing behaviour of the giraffe in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe by Seeber, Peter A., Ndlovu, Honestly T., Duncan, Patrick, Ganswindt, André

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Evaluation of lake sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding to assess fungal biodiversity in Arctic paleoecosystems by Seeber, Peter Andreas, Hippel, Barbara, Kauserud, Hårvard, Löber, Ulrike, Stoof‐Leichsenring, Kathleen Rosmarie, Herzschuh, Ulrike, Epp, Laura S.

“…Fungi are crucial organisms in most ecosystems as they exert ecological key functions and are closely associated with land plants. Fungal community changes…”
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Monitoring terrestrial wildlife by combining hybridization capture and metabarcoding data from waterhole environmental DNA by Li, Juan, Seeber, Peter, Axtner, Jan, Crouthers, Rachel, Groenenberg, Milou, Koehncke, Arnulf, Courtiol, Alexandre, Chanratana, Pin, Greenwood, Alex D.

“…In conservation science, observation-based methods are generally applied to wildlife monitoring. While useful, such approaches are often restricted to…”
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Terrestrial mammal surveillance using hybridization capture of environmental DNA from African waterholes by Seeber, Peter Andreas, McEwen, Gayle K., Löber, Ulrike, Förster, Daniel W., East, Marion Linda, Melzheimer, Jörg, Greenwood, Alex D.

“…Determining species distributions can be extremely challenging but is crucial to ecological and conservation research. Environmental DNA (eDNA) approaches have…”
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Long-term fungus–plant covariation from multi-site sedimentary ancient DNA metabarcoding by von Hippel, Barbara, Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen R., Schulte, Luise, Seeber, Peter, Epp, Laura S., Biskaborn, Boris K., Diekmann, Bernhard, Melles, Martin, Pestryakova, Luidmila, Herzschuh, Ulrike

“…Climate change has a major impact on arctic and boreal terrestrial ecosystems as warming leads to northward treeline shifts, inducing consequences for…”
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Mitochondrial genomes of Pleistocene megafauna retrieved from recent sediment layers of two Siberian lakes by Seeber, Peter Andreas, Batke, Laura, Dvornikov, Yury, Schmidt, Alexandra, Wang, Yi, Stoof-Leichsenring, Kathleen, Moon, Katie, Vohr, Samuel H, Shapiro, Beth, Epp, Laura S

“…Ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) from lake sediments has yielded remarkable insights for the reconstruction of past ecosystems, including suggestions of late…”
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Seasonal host and ecological drivers may promote restricted water as a viral vector by Dayaram, Anisha, Seeber, Peter, Courtiol, Alexandre, Soilemetzidou, Sanatana, Tsangaras, Kyriakos, Franz, Mathias, McEwen, Gayle K., Azab, Walid, Kaczensky, Petra, Melzheimer, Jörg, East, Marion L., Ganbaatar, Oyunsaikhan, Walzer, Christian, Osterrieder, Nikolaus, Greenwood, Alex D.

“…In climates with seasonally limited precipitation, terrestrial animals congregate at high densities at scarce water sources. We hypothesize that viruses can…”
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A hepatitis B virus causes chronic infections in equids worldwide by Rasche, Andrea, Lehmann, Felix, Goldmann, Nora, Nagel, Michael, Moreira-Soto, Andres, Nobach, Daniel, de Oliveira Carneiro, Ianei, Osterrieder, Nikolaus, Greenwood, Alex D., Steinmann, Eike, Lukashev, Alexander N., Schuler, Gerhard, Glebe, Dieter, Drexler, Jan Felix

“…Preclinical testing of novel therapeutics for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) requires suitable animal models. Equids host homologs of hepatitis C virus (HCV)…”
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Equid Herpesvirus Infections in Zebras (Equus sp.): Host Physiology and Non-invasive Detection of Virus Shedding by Seeber, Peter Andreas

“…The equid herpesviruses (EHV) are highly prevalent pathogens in all global equid populations, with infection prevalence rates of up to 100%. They are…”
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Grazing behaviour of the giraffe in H wange N ational P ark, Z imbabwe by Seeber, Peter A., Ndlovu, Honestly T., Duncan, Patrick, Ganswindt, André

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