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Lions and Prions and Deer Demise

BACKGROUND: Contagious prion diseases – scrapie of sheep and chronic wasting disease of several species in the deer family – give rise to epidemics that seem capable of compromising host population viability. Despite this prospect, the ecological consequences of prion disease epidemics in natural po...

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Autores principales: Miller, Michael W., Swanson, Heather M., Wolfe, Lisa L., Quartarone, Fred G., Huwer, Sherri L., Southwick, Charles H., Lukacs, Paul M.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2602978/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19107193
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004019