Immunocontraception of White-Tailed Deer with GnRH Vaccine

Authors

Lowell A. Miller, National Wildlife Research CenterFollow
Brad E. Johns, National Wildlife Research Center
Gary J. Killian, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PennsylvaniaFollow

Date of this Version

April 2000

Comments

Published in AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY VOL. 44, 2000. Permission to use. Copyright Munksgaard, 2000.

Abstract

One of the most successful immunocontraceptive vaccines used for wildlife is porcine zona pellucida (PZP). Several authors have published on the use of PZP immunocontraceptive vaccines to immunosterilize white-tailed deer. This is the first long term study of the use of GnRH contraception of deer. This GnRH immunocontraceptive study was part of a multi-year White- Tailed deer infertility study on the deer herd at Pennsylvania State University, (PSU) University Park, Pennsylvania in cooperation with National Wildlife Research Center, (NWRC) Fort Collins, CO.