19. Woodchucks, Squirrels, Prairie Dogs Flashcards
Order and suborder of woodchucks
Order Rodentia, suborder Sciuromorpha
Woodchuck gestation time
30-33 days
Woodchuck hepatitis virus is a model for which human dz?
Hepatitis B virus (HBV)
WHV is a member of which virus family?
Hepadnavirus
C/S of chronic WHV infection
Hepatic encephalopathy, immune-mediated glomerulonephritis, edema/ascites, hepatocellular carcinoma
Cardio diseases of woodchucks
Cardiomyopathy -> CHF
Aortic rupture
Misc common dz of woodchucks
Diaphragmatic hernia
Hibernating woodchuck is a model of what human dz?
Panhypopituitarism
Richardson’s ground squirrel
Urocitellus richardsonii
13-lined ground squirrel
Ictodomys tridecemliniatus
Golden-mantled ground squirrel
Spermophilus lateralis
California ground squirrel
Spermophilus beechyi
3 viral diseases of squirrels
Ground squirrel hepatitis virus
Western equine encephalitis virus
Rabies virus
Hepatic carcinoma in squirrels is caused by what virus?
GSHV
Gestation period of prairie dogs
34-47 days