Parapoxvirus causes a deleterious disease in red squirrels associated with UK population declines

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1490, 2002, Pages 529-533

  Tompkins, Daniel M ^a   Sainsbury, A W ^a   Nettleton, P ^a   Buxton, D ^a   Gurnell, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ecological replacement; Emerging infectious disease; Grey squirrel; Sciurus carolinensis; Sciurus vulgaris; Virus

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DECLINE; RODENT; VIRAL DISEASE;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARAPOXVIRUS; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUIRREL; UNITED KINGDOM; VIRUS PATHOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GREAT BRITAIN; PARAPOXVIRUS; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; SCIURIDAE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIRUS DISEASES; WEIGHT LOSS;

UNITED KINGDOM;

CAROLINENSIS; DNA VIRUSES; PARAPOXVIRUS; RODENTIA; SCIURIDAE; SCIURUS; SCIURUS CAROLINENSIS; SCIURUS VULGARIS; TAMIASCIURUS;

EID: 53149099702     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1897     Document Type: Article

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