Data collected included: the numbers of animals, husbandry information, sources and eventual fate of dogs and cats cared for, and numbers of staff.
Detailed animal husbandry information was additionally obtained.
We are grateful to various members of the Kaplan and Park Labs for their help in animal husbandry, breeding, and data collection, including Linsey Arnold, Kristy Gonyer, Martha Baugh-Vonreis, Morgan Movius and Jessie Ellington at Reed College.
We are appreciative of the excellent technical assistance of Alma Islas Trejo in the preparation of the samples for array analysis and of the excellent support of Vince De Vera in mouse husbandry and phenotypic data collection.
Several aspects of the project (husbandry, phenotype scheduling and data storage) was administrated using a database specifically designed for congenic-based projects [21].
Data on livestock husbandry including the numbers of large animals (cattle, horses, donkeys and mules), sheep, and deer, and on climatic and land cover variables were also collected.
The data on animal husbandry, environment, and factors including livestock density (sheep, goats, swine and cattle), average elevation, vegetation coverage (croplands, forests, and grassland), and climate variables were collected.
To explore risk factors that affected the spatial heterogeneity of HFRS incidence in Changchun, annual data on livestock husbandry that included the numbers of large animals (cattle, horses, donkeys and mules), sheep, and deer during 1988–2012 were collected for each county from the Annual Statistic Report of Changchun.
First, a survey was conducted regarding livestock management, data pertaining the livestock husbandry, the role of animal husbandry in economics of rural household, and socioeconomics.
