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Sea Turtles: Old Viruses and New Tricks

Recent years have seen an inexplicable increase in the frequency of an appalling disease in sea turtles: fibropapillomatosis, which is likely caused by a herpesvirus and causes tumors to grow throughout the turtle's body. New research has led to the disturbing conclusion that recent, human-indu...

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Autor principal: Jones, Adam G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15458663
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2004.09.038
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description Recent years have seen an inexplicable increase in the frequency of an appalling disease in sea turtles: fibropapillomatosis, which is likely caused by a herpesvirus and causes tumors to grow throughout the turtle's body. New research has led to the disturbing conclusion that recent, human-induced environmental changes are responsible.
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spelling pubmed-71266482020-04-08 Sea Turtles: Old Viruses and New Tricks Jones, Adam G. Curr Biol Dispatch Recent years have seen an inexplicable increase in the frequency of an appalling disease in sea turtles: fibropapillomatosis, which is likely caused by a herpesvirus and causes tumors to grow throughout the turtle's body. New research has led to the disturbing conclusion that recent, human-induced environmental changes are responsible. Elsevier Ltd. 2004-10-05 2004-10-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7126648/ /pubmed/15458663 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2004.09.038 Text en Copyright © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7126648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15458663
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