Lions and prions and deer demise.

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 popu...

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Main Authors: Michael W Miller, Heather M Swanson, Lisa L Wolfe, Fred G Quartarone, Sherri L Huwer, Charles H Southwick, Paul M Lukacs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2602978?pdf=render

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