Grey squirrels have high seroprevalence to a parapoxvirus associated with deaths in red squirrels

Animal Conservation

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 229-233

  Sainsbury, Anthony W ^a   Nettleton, Peter ^b   Gilray, Janice ^b   Gurnell, John ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b MOREDUN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CAROLINENSIS; PARAPOXVIRUS; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS VULGARIS; SQUIRREL POXVIRUS; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 0000183821     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1367943000000949     Document Type: Article

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