Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: lessons for conservation biology

2008/08/20 by Hamish McCallum · 125 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Immunology and Microbiology · Medicine · #Animal Virus Infections Studies #Biology #Carnivore #Conservation biology #Demography #Disease #Ecology #Evolutionary biology #Extinction (optical mineralogy) #Infectious disease (medical specialty) #Marsupial #Medicine #Microbial infections and disease research #Pathology #Population #Predation #Range (aeronautics) #Veterinary Oncology Research #Wildlife #Wildlife disease #Zoology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.001

published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution 23(11), 631-637 (Elsevier BV)

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Cited by

• Genomic insights into a contagious cancer in Tasmanian devils
• Devil facial tumour disease [wikipedia]