Life-history change in disease-ravaged Tasmanian devil populations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 29, 2008, Pages 10023-10027

  Jones, Menna E ^a,b,c   Cockburn, Andrew ^b   Hamede, Rodrigo ^a   Hawkins, Clare ^a,c   Hesterman, Heather ^a   Lachish, Shelly ^d   Mann, Diana ^c   McCallum, Hamish ^a   Pemberton, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Carnivorous marsupial; Infectious cancer; Precocious breeding; Semelparity; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CARNIVORE; FACE TUMOR; FEMALE; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; MAMMAL; MARSUPIAL; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII; SEXUAL MATURITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; MARSUPIALIA; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL MATURATION; TASMANIA;

MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

EID: 48249132410     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711236105     Document Type: Article

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