Historical mammal extinction on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) correlates with introduced infectious disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Wyatt, Kelly B ^a   Campos, Paula F ^b   Gilbert, M Thomas P ^b   Kolokotronis, Sergios Orestis ^c   Hynes, Wayne H ^a   DeSalle, Rob ^c   Daszak, Peter ^d   MacPhee, Ross D E ^c   Greenwood, Alex D ^a,c  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^d ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME B; PROTEIN GHR; RAG1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRISTMAS ISLAND; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDEMIC SPECIES; FLEA; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RAT; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHIMERA; CROSS BREEDING; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HISTORY; INDIAN OCEAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MAMMAL; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRYPANOSOMA;

AMPHIBIA; INVERTEBRATA; MAMMALIA; MURIDAE; RATTUS; RATTUS MACLEARI; RATTUS RATTUS; RODENTIA; SIPHONAPTERA (FLEAS); VERTEBRATA;

ANIMALS; CHIMERA; CROSSES, GENETIC; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; INDIAN OCEAN; MAMMALS; MICRONESIA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RATS; TRYPANOSOMA; TRYPANOSOMIASIS;

EID: 56349091551     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003602     Document Type: Article

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