Optimal release strategies for captive-bred animals in reintroduction programs: Experimental infections using the guppy as a model organism

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 35-41

  Faria, Patrícia J ^a   van Oosterhout, Cock ^b   Cable, Joanne ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Parasitism; Poecilia reticulata; Reintroduction; Supplementation; Translocation; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

CAPTIVE POPULATION; CYPRINID; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EXTINCTION; FLATWORM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; MORTALITY; PARASITIC DISEASE; REINTRODUCTION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SURVIVAL; TRANSLOCATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; CYPRINODONTIFORMES; GYRODACTYLUS TURNBULLI; POECILIA RETICULATA;

EID: 71649088272     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.06.002     Document Type: Article

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