Individual and Population-Level Impacts of an Emerging Poxvirus Disease in a Wild Population of Great Tits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Lachish, Shelly ^a   Bonsall, Michael B ^a   Lawson, Becki ^b   Cunningham, Andrew A ^b   Sheldon, Ben C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GREAT TIT; GROWTH RATE; NONHUMAN; PARUS MAJOR; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; POXVIRUS; POXVIRUS INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SONGBIRD; SURVIVAL RATE; WILD ANIMAL; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BIRD DISEASES; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH; MALE; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POXVIRIDAE; POXVIRIDAE INFECTIONS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

AVIPOXVIRUS; PARIDAE; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERI; POXVIRIDAE;

EID: 84869840123     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048545     Document Type: Article

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