Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus 1, 4 and 5 in China: Occurrence in Multiple Sample Types and Implications for Wild and Captive Population Surveillance.

Elephant endotheliotropic herpesviruses (EEHVs) are important causes of death in both captive and wild Asian elephants (). Nothing is known about the prevalence of EEHVs in wild or domestic elephants in China. To determine if EEHVs are present in elephants in China, 126 wild elephants from three populations and 202 captive individuals from zoos ( = 155) and the Wild Elephant Valley ( = 47) were screened using semi-nested polymerase chain reaction assays with EEHV-redundant and EEHV1/4/5-specific primers.

Raging elephants: effects of human disturbance on physiological stress and reproductive potential in wild Asian elephants.

Human disturbance has become a widespread threat to wildlife viability. The Asian elephant (), an endangered and disturbance-prone species, is under severe threat from habitat loss and fragmentation, human-elephant conflict and poaching. Establishing connections between human disturbance, stress responses and reproduction is crucial for assessing the long-term survivability of a species and will provide critical information for conservation management.

[Prokaryotic expression, purification and preparation of polyclonal antibody for wheat grain peroxidase WP1 gene].

Wheat peroxidases 1 (WP1) is the major cationic peroxidase of wheat (Triticum aestivum) grain, which is involved in the development of seeds and an important factor to affect the final processing quality of flour. We constructed a prokaryotic expression vector pET28a-WP1, and transformed it into E. coli host strain T7 Expression.