TB-infected deer are more closely related than non-infected deer

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 104-106

  Blanchong, Julie A ^a,b   Scribner, Kim T ^a   Kravchenko, Alexandra N ^a   Winterstein, Scott R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bovine tuberculosis; Ecology; Microsatellites; White tailed deer; Wildlife; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; DEER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENEALOGY; GENETIC MARKER; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENETIC MARKER; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; WHITE TAILED DEER; WILDLIFE;

BOVINAE; CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 65949120418     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2006.0547     Document Type: Article

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