To lose both would look like carelessness: Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease

PLoS Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1671-1674

  McCallum, Hamish ^a   Jones, Menna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; FACE TUMOR; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; SHORT SURVEY; SPECIES EXTINCTION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACE; PATHOLOGY; TIME;

SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FACE; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; MARSUPIALIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; TASMANIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750276142     PISSN: 15457885     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040342     Document Type: Short Survey

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