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Academic Articles


​Here are some academic articles, research papers, books, and news reports regarding foxes. Most of these sites are journals or academic articles from scholarly resources and universities. Each article is a very interesting read even if they are a little dense. Book resources are below.
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  • The Application Of Artificial Insemination In The Breeding Of Silver And Black Foxes (1923)
  • Distemper in the Silver Fox (1925)
  • Historic Forts And Trading Posts Of The French Regime And Of The English Fur Trading Companies (1930)
  • Outline Of A Few Diseases Which Occur In Silver Foxes Bred In The British Isles (1932)
  • A Glioma in a Dog and a Pinealoma in a Silver Fox (Vulpes Fulvus) (1935)
  • A Graphical Study Of The Blood Of Normal Foxes (1935)
  • Nutrition Of Fur Animals (1936)
  • The Norwegian Platinum Fox (1939)
  • Silver Foxes As Source Of Infection With Trichophytia In Man (1939)
  • A Deficiency Disease of Foxes Produced by Feeding Fish: B1 Avitaminosis Analogous to Wernicke's Disease of Man (1940)
  • The Pathology of Chastek Paralysis in Foxes (1942)
  • Chastek Paralysis on Alberta Fox Ranch (1943)
  • White Spotting In The Fox (1943)
  • The inheritance of platinum and white face characters in the fox (1947)
  • The nature of coat color differences in mink and foxes (1948)
  • Chromosomes Of A Fox Hybrid (Alopex-Vulpes) (1949)
  • Population Cycles And Gene Frequency Fluctuations In Foxes Of The Genus Vulpes, In Canada (1950)
  • Digestibility Studies with Foxes: III. Digestibility of Some Fox Feeds and Fox Rations (1950)
  • Population Cycles And Color Phase Genetics Of The Colored Fox In Quebec (1951)
  • Thiamin status of foxes with Chastek's paralysis. (1975)
  • Flea Bite Allergic Dermatitis In A Red Fox (Vulpes Fulva) (1979)
  • The safety and efficacy of immunizing foxes (Vulpes vulpes) using bait containing attenuated rabies virus vaccine. (1980)
  • Inherited Activation-Inactivation Of The Star Gene In Foxes (1981)
  • Immunization of foxes Vulpes vulpes by the oral and intramuscular routes with inactivated rabies vaccines. (1982)
  • The Genetic Factors For Colour Types In Ranch Bred Foxes (1983)
  • Domestication In The Silver Fox (Vulpes Fulvus Desm): Changes In Physiological Boundaries Of The Sensitive Period Of Primary Socialization (1985)
  • Similarities and Contrasts in the Diets of Foxes, Vulpes vulpes, and Cats, Felis catus, Relative to Fluctuating Prey Populations and Drought (1988)
  • Photoperiodic regulation of reproduction in the male silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) (1989)
  • Physiological responses of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) to surgery. (1990)
  • Early Experience With The Farm Environment And Effects On Later Behaviour In Silver Vulpes Vulpes And Blue Foxes Alopex Lagopus (1991)
  • The endocrinology of gestational failure in foxes (Vulpes vulpes) (1994)
  • Inter- and intraspecific competition between the fox species Alopex lagopus and Vulpes vulpes: and evaluation trial under penned conditions. (1997)
  • Duration of immunity in foxes vaccinated orally with ERA vaccine in a bait. (1997)
  • Effects of Handling and Physical Restraint on Rectal Temperature, Cortisol, Glucose and Leucocyte Counts in the Silver Fox (Vulpes vulpes) (1997)
  • Validation of the Feeding Test as an Index of Fear in Farmed Blue (Alopex lagopus) and Silver Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) (1997)
  • Early Canid Domestication: The Farm-Fox Experiment (1999)
  • Distemper vaccination of farmed fur animals in Finland (2000)
  • The Distribution Of Vitamin A And Retinol Binding Protein IN The Blood Plasma, Urine, Liver And Kidneys Of Carnivores (2000)
  • Morphology of Hair Pigmentation in Wild Red Foxes, Silver Foxes, and Their Hybrids (2001)
  • The Problems With Hybrids: Setting Conservation Guidelines (2001)
  • Evaluation of Pastel Fox Breeding Results in Poland- Reproduction (2002)
  • Morphology Of Hair Pigmentation In Wild Red Foxes, Silver Foxes, And Their Hybrids (2002)
  • Kinetics of maternal immunity against rabies in fox cubs (Vulpes vulpes) (2002)
  • IgG4 Response To Fur Animal Allergens Among Fur Workers (2004)
  • Kit Foxes - Vulpes Macrotis (2005)
  • Animal Evolution: Foxy Friends (2005)
  • A note on reward-related behaviour and emotional expressions in farmed silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) Basis to study animal welfare (2006)
  • Geographic variation in tooth morphology of the arctic fox, vulpes (alopex) lagopus (2007)
  • Selection for tameness modulates the expression of heme related genes in silver foxes (2007)
  • Social Monogamy in Kit Foxes: Formation, Association, Duration, and Dissolution of Mated Pairs (2007)
  • Environmental variation at the onset of independent foraging affects full-grown body mass in the red fox (2008)
  • Differentiation of North African foxes and population genetic dynamics in the desert—insights into the evolutionary history of two sister taxa, Vulpes rueppellii and Vulpes vulpes and Vulpes pallida (2009)
  • Farmed Blue Foxes? (Vulpes lagopus) Need For a Sand Floor (2009)
  • Artificial insemination in canids: A useful tool in breeding and conservation (2009)
  • Zoos Making a World of Difference - Sahara Conservation Fund (2009)
  • Chromosomal Mapping of Canine-Derived BAC Clones to the Red Fox and American Mink Genomes
  • A restricted hybrid zone between native and introduced red fox (Vulpes vulpes) populations suggests reproductive barriers and competitive exclusion. (2010)
  • Coccidiosis in farmed silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) and blue foxes (Alopex lagopus) in Finland: a case report (2010)
  • Mapping loci for fox domestication: deconstruction/reconstruction of a behavioral phenotype (2010)
  • Tracing the Fox Family Tree: The North American Red Fox has a Diverse Ancestry Forged During Successive Ice ages (2011)
  • Mother Knows Best: Dominant Females Determine Offspring Dispersal in Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) (2011)
  • On the origin of a domesticated species: Identifying the parent population of Russian silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes) (2011)
  • Animal Domestication: Taming the Wild (2011)
  • A Unique Human-Fox Burial from a Pre-Natufian Cemetery in the Levant (Jordan) (2011)
  • Preliminary Evaluation of Raboral V-RG® Oral Rabies Vaccine in Arctic Foxes (Vulpes lagopus) (2011)
  • Reproduction in farmed Silver fox vixens, Vulpes vulpes, in relation to own competition capacity and that of neighbouring vixens (2011)
  • Temporal genetic variation of the red fox, Vulpes vulpes, across western Europe and the British Isles (2012)
  • The original of recently established red fox populations in the United States: translocations or natural range expansions? (2012)
  • Microsatellite polymorphism and its association with body weight and selected morphometrics of farm red fox (Vulpes vulpes L.) (2014)
  • Genetic characterisation of the rabies virus vaccine strains used for oral immunization of foxes in Poland to estimate the effectiveness of vaccination  (2014)
  • The "Domestication Syndrome" in Mammals: A Unified Explanation Based on Neural Crest Cell Behavior and Genetics (2014)
  • Complete mitochondrial genome of the fennec fox (Vulpes zerda) (2014)
  • Faux Foxes: Fox Domestication and and Pet Ownership (2015)
  • Hormonal responses of Arctic fox females to short- and long-term stress (2015)
  • Mitochondrial Analysis of the Most Basal Canid Reveals Deep Divergence between Eastern and Western North American Gray Foxes (Urocyon spp.) and Ancient Roots in Pleistocene California (2015)
  • Genetic signatures of adaptation revealed from transcriptome sequencing of Arctic and red foxes (2015)
  • Genotyping-By-Sequencing (GBS) Detects Genetic Structure and Confirms Behavioral QTL in Tame and Aggressive Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) (2015)
  • Platinum coat color in red fox (Vulpes vulpes) is caused by a mutation in an autosomal copy of KIT (2015)
  • Hereditary hyperplastic gingivitis in North American farmed silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) (2015)
  • Spatial organization of the Pale Fox in the Termit Massif of east Niger (2016)
  • Food habits of the pale fox (Vulpes pallida) in Niger (2017)
  • Anterior Pituitary Transcriptome Suggests Differences in ACTH Release in Tame and Aggressive Foxes (2018)​

Books


​Fox Care:
  • Management of the Red Fox (V. vulpes) in Captivity - by Wolf Park.
  • Running with the Fox - by David MacDonald.
  • Red Fox: The Catlike Canine - by J David Henry.
  • This Fox of Mine - by K. L. Waggoner.​
  • Fennec Fox Pet - by George Galloway.​
  • Fennec Fox Owners Manual - by Edward Eldington
Genetics, care and farming:
  • Beautiful Fur Animals - and Their Colour Genetics - by Scientifur. 
  • L'élevage du renard - by PUB CRAAQ.
General Information:
  • Foxes, Wolves, & Wild Dogs of the World - by David Alderton. 
  • Walker's Carnivores of the World - by Ronald M. Nowak.
  • The Desert Fox Family Book - by Hans Gerald Laukel
  • Faux Foxes - University research.​
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