Viruses of Cetaceans

Studies in Viral Ecology: Animal Host Systems

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 309-332

  Van Bressem, Marie Françoise ^a,b   Raga, Juan Antonio ^c  

^a Cetacean Conservation Medicine Group (CMED/CEPEC)   (Colombia)

^b Museo de Delfines   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Pattern of infection, strategies of viruses infecting cetaceans anthropogenic factors, host and virus equilibrium alteration; RNA viruses, morbilliviruses genus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886032539     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118025710.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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