Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: lessons for conservation biology

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 631-637

  McCallum, Hamish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION GENETICS; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXTINCTION; GENETIC VARIATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TUMOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACE TUMOR; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; GENETIC VARIATION; MARSUPIALIA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

METATHERIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

EID: 53649100391     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.001     Document Type: Review

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