Evaluating Spatial Overlap and Relatedness of White-tailed Deer in a Chronic Wasting Disease Management Zone

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Magle, Seth B ^a   Samuel, Michael D ^b   Van Deelen, Timothy R ^b   Robinson, Stacie J ^b   Mathews, Nancy E ^b  

^a Urban Wildlife Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PREVALENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; UNITED STATES; WHITE TAILED DEER; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; CATTLE; DEER; FEMALE; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS, BOVINE; WASTING DISEASE, CHRONIC; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84874493117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056568     Document Type: Article

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