Reduced Effect of Tasmanian Devil Facial Tumor Disease at the Disease Front

Conservation Biology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 124-134

  Hamede, Rodrigo ^a   Lachish, Shelly ^b   Belov, Katherine ^c   Woods, Gregory ^d   Kreiss, Alexandre ^d   Pearse, Anne Maree ^e   Lazenby, Billie ^e   Jones, Menna ^a,e   Mccallum, Hamish ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^f GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assisted selection; Disease ecology; Epidemiology; Infectious cancer; Threatened species; Wildlife disease management

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ALLELE; CANCER; CONSERVATION GENETICS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; TUMOR; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FACE TUMOR; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IMMUNOLOGY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MARSUPIAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; GENOTYPE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MARSUPIALIA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TASMANIA;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

ANIMALIA; SARCOPHILUS HARRISII;

EID: 84856336906     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01747.x     Document Type: Article

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