Although Se is an essential mineral, the effects of Se supplementation on haematological or biochemical parameters are considered minimal in cattle without significant Se deficiency [ 9, 13].
Disturbance is minimal as cattle grazing ceased >60 years ago, the historical stock travelling route avoided these summits and there are few native and no exotic burrowing mammals at these elevations.
Across this broad spatial domain (3.03 million ha), we minimized confounding due to abiotic factors by selecting horse-occupied and horse-removed sites with similar aspect, slope, fire history, grazing pressure by cattle (minimal to none), and dominant vegetation (Artemisia tridentata).
Also, our sampling occurred on days with no wind or obvious fugitive dust, comparable to early morning samples in the study of Popescu et al. (2011) or upwind conditions with minimal influence from cattle activity (Wilson et al., 2002).
These results suggest that delaying the time of growth implant administration of newly received cattle had minimal effects on animal performance, health, and immune response.
In the presence of mevastatin (a chemical used to block the de novo cholesterol synthesis pathway), LHR mRNA amounts in both cultured GC and TC of cattle, were minimal.
In large animals such as cattle, the minimal disturbance to the animals caused by the insertion of the probe does not produce alterations in body temperature as it does in small rodents.
Concerning the effect of host availability on transmission rates, since data was taken from sentinel farms where minimal transhumance activity took place, cattle density was considered as stable, with a Swiss average size of 30 cattle per farm.
It is desirable that cattle carcasses have minimal amounts of fat stored in subcutaneous adipose tissue (SAT), without a detrimental decrease in intramuscular fat [ 3].
Thus, in contrast to humans and mice, dual usage of TRAV/TRDV genes in cattle makes a minimal contribution to diversifying the available TRDV germline repertoire but instead has been employed to further diversify the germline repertoire of V genes available for TRA rearrangement.
