Common avian infection plagued the tyrant dinosaurs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Wolff, Ewan D S ^a   Salisbury, Steven W ^b,c   Horner, John R ^d   Varrichio, David J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^d MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRD DISEASE; CANNIBALISM; CAUSE OF DEATH; DINOSAUR; ENDEMIC DISEASE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MANDIBLE; NONHUMAN; PALEONTOLOGY; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; SPECIES EXTINCTION; STARVATION; TRICHOMONAS; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE; TRICHOMONIASIS; TYRANNOSAURUS REX; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DINOSAURIA; PROTOZOA; RAPTORES; THEROPODA; TRICHOMONAS GALLINAE; TYRANNOSAURIDAE; TYRANNOSAURUS REX;

ANIMALS; DINOSAURS; EVOLUTION; FOSSILS; INFECTION; PALEONTOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; TRICHOMONAS INFECTIONS;

EID: 70349651252     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0007288     Document Type: Article

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