Emerging prion disease drives host selection in a wildlife population

Ecological Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1050-1059

  Robinson, Stacie J ^a   Samuel, Michael D ^b   Johnson, Chad J ^a   Adams, Marie ^a   McKenzie, Debbie I ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian modeling; Chronic wasting disease (CWD); Disease driven selection; Epidemiology; Evolution; Infection rate; Mortality rate; Population dynamics; Prion disease; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); White tailed deer; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIOASSAY; DEER; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FITNESS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HOST SELECTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MORTALITY; NATURAL SELECTION; NATURE CONSERVATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION GROWTH; PRION DISEASE; VULNERABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

AGING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DEER; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PRION; WILD ANIMAL;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DEER; GENOTYPE; PRIONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC;

CERVIDAE; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 84859716608     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/11-0907.1     Document Type: Article

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