110 years of Avipoxvirus in the Galapagos Islands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Parker, Patricia G ^a,b   Buckles, Elizabeth L ^c   Farrington, Heather ^d   Petren, Kenneth ^d   Whiteman, Noah K ^a,f   Ricklefs, Robert E ^a   Bollmer, Jennifer L ^a,g   Jiménez Uzcá, Gustavo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^b WildCare Institute   (United States)

^c Animal Health Diagnostic Center   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e Fundacion Charles Darwin   (Ecuador)

^f University of Arizona   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRD; CANARYPOX VIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; FINCH; FOWLPOX VIRUS; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION DISPERSION; SKIN DEFECT; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BIRD DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; POXVIRUS INFECTION; SONGBIRD; TIME; VIROLOGY;

AVES; AVIPOXVIRUS; FRINGILLIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

ANIMALS; AVIPOXVIRUS; BIRD DISEASES; ECUADOR; HUMANS; PASSERIFORMES; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79251562196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015989     Document Type: Article

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