Mass mortality of adult male subantarctic fur seals: Are alien mice the culprits?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  de Bruyn, P J Nico ^a   Bastos, Amanda D S ^a   Eadie, Candice ^a   Tosh, Cheryl A ^a   Bester, Marthán N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CARDIOVIRUS; DISEASE CARRIER; GENOME ANALYSIS; INFECTION RISK; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; VIRUS INFECTION; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; KIDNEY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

ARCTOCEPHALUS TROPICALIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CARDIOVIRUS; MAMMALIA; MUS; MUS MUSCULUS; RODENTIA; STREPTOCOCCUS;

ANIMALS; CARDIOVIRUS; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FUR SEALS; KIDNEY; LEPTOSPIROSIS; MALE; MICE; PREVALENCE; SEX FACTORS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS;

EID: 56649107838     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003757     Document Type: Article

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