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Feral Equids
Feral horses (Equus ferus caballus) and burros (E. asinus) in North America, often referred to as free-roaming, free-ranging, or wild horses and...
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How Equids Cope with Macroparasites
In this chapter, we review exposure risk dynamics and co** mechanisms that equids employ against macroparasites, with a focus on gastrointestinal...
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Equids and Predators
It is often assumed that because predators typically consume large numbers of prey, they automatically control prey population sizes and help shape...
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Are Equids Evolutionary Dead Ends?
We posit that it is trite to compare equids with Pecora or ruminants and conclude that the equid lifestyle is less ‘successful’ because equids are...
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Forage Consumption and Digestion in the Modern Equids
Equids are herbivores that consume a wide range of plant species and plant parts. They have adaptations of their anatomy, physiology, and...
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On Humanity and Equids: Ecologies, Trajectories, and Relationships
Here we explore the long-term trajectories of human–domestic equid relationships from the domestication of donkeys and horses to the present day. We...
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Conclusion: A New Story of the Modern Equids
The stories in science are constantly evolving as new information comes to light. Without wanting to appear revisionist, we have rewritten the...
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Why There Are No Modern Equids Living in Tropical Lowland Rainforests
Presently, the equid lineage occurs completely outside tropical rainforest environments, which is thought of as the cradle of Perissodactyls and...
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Serosurvey of spotted fever group Rickettsia in equids from western Pará, Amazon, Brazil
From a previous large epidemiological survey, we randomly selected 474 serum samples (463 horses and 11 mules) distributed among four municipalities...
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Diseases and the Distributions of Wild and Domestic Equids
Wild and domesticated members of the Equidae display considerable phenotypic variation, and an elegant adaptation to the areas in which they live....
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The potential of three whole blood microRNAs to predict outcome and monitor treatment response in sarcoid-bearing equids
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have been proposed as biomarkers for equine sarcoid (ES) disease. In this study, the suitability of three whole blood miRNAs to...
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Evolutionary Radiation of Equids
Horses became ubiquitous elements of Cenozoic communities and reached high diversity in Neogene times. Most accounts of their diversification history...
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Placentation in Equids
This chapter focuses on the early stages of placental development in horses and their relatives in the genus Equus and highlights unique features of...
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The Equids A Suite of Splendid Species
The narrative of the progression of the ‘horse family’ through geological time, from dog-sized fruit-eating animals with four toes on their front and...
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Epigenetic models developed for plains zebras predict age in domestic horses and endangered equids
Effective conservation and management of threatened wildlife populations require an accurate assessment of age structure to estimate demographic...
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Morphological Differentiation of Equids (Equus ovodovi, Equus hemionus) and Their Distribution Ranges in Western Siberia in the Late Pleistocene
AbstractThis paper presents the results of a morphological study for distinguishing the remains of two small equid species that inhabited the south...
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Molecular detection of Burkholderia mallei in different geographic regions of Brazil
Glanders is a contagious disease of equids caused by the Gram-negative bacterium Burkholderia mallei . In Brazil, the disease is considered to be...
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Equid Adaptations to Cold Environments
Over the past 20 million years from mid-Miocene, the horse family has successfully radiated across the Northern Hemisphere, displaying extraordinary...
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Evolution of the Equid Limb
The evolution of the limbs of horses has fascinated scholars and laymen alike for generations. From the late 1800s until the present day, different...
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Evolution of Equid Body Size
Body size plays a central role in the biology, physiology, and ecology of organisms. It further represents a main characteristic of the evolutionary...