Rabbit haemorrhagic disease: Applying Occam's Razor to competing hypotheses

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1038-1041

  Peacock, David ^a   Mutze, Greg ^a   Sinclair, Ron ^a   Kovaliski, John ^a   Cooke, Brian ^b  

^a Biosecurity South Australia   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Oryctolagus cuniculus; pathogenicity; rabbit; RHD

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CALICIVIRUS INFECTION; CANADA; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EUROPE; LAGOVIRUS; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; RABBIT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; CALICIVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; CANADA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EUROPE; HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS, RABBIT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHYLOGENY; RABBITS;

ANIMALIA; HEXAPODA; LAGOVIRUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; RABBIT HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE VIRUS;

EID: 84857626128     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05466.x     Document Type: Review

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