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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"wildlife disease"”.
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Appreciating the Importance of Parasites: Analyzing and Understanding the Ecology of Parasite-Host Interactions
… use that in turn affect spatial patterns of disease in invertebrate hosts. This is the first study to document such an effect, and I discuss the important implications of this finding. 3) How is hypothesis testing applied in studies of wildlife disease, what conclusions can we make about the …
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Evaluating Volatile Organic Compounds for Contact-Independent Antagonism of Pseudogymnoascus destructans and Assessing the Impact of Fungal Pigmentation on Antifungal Susceptibility
… systems, researchers, in conjunction with wildlife management agencies, have been actively exploring disease control methods to mitigate the impact of WNS on susceptible bat species. The accessibility and ecology of bat hibernacula pose unique complications for application of disease …
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Behavioral Heterogeneity and Disease Dynamics in House Finches (Haemorhous mexicanus)
Infectious disease is a ubiquitous aspect of life on earth; however, parasites and pathogens are not distributed equally among individual hosts. Due to its ability to shape the way that individuals interact with other potential hosts and the environment, behavior is one of the most salient ways …
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Climate change and disease at the human-wildlife interface
… the propagation of infectious and zoonotic diseases. Assessments of local level impacts at the human-wildlife interface are imperative for stakeholders and policy makers, and empirical review of such research is undoubtedly necessary to understand the current state of the field, gaps of …
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Improving the genome assembly and annotation of the white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus borealis)
… areas. The species is affected by infectious diseases such as chronic wasting disease, epizootic hemorrhagic disease, and bovine tuberculosis. Genomic resources facilitate the study of pathogens, host-pathogen interactions, host genetic variation, and behavior. Repetitive elements are …
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Developing Transcriptional Markers for Detecting Infection with the Novel Tuberculosis Pathogen, Mycobacterium mungi, in Free-Ranging Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)
… predictive models for forecasting infectious disease dynamics over space and time relies on successful surveillance strategies to accurately assess host infection status. We are constantly refining these models to improve our understanding of transmission and persistence dynamics in host …
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Mapping pathogen distributions and population connectivity of a sentinel Arctic species, the polar bear (Ursus maritimus) across a changing North American Arctic
… making many northern species more vulnerable to disease. To understand such rapidly changing host-pathogen dynamics and potentially mitigate impacts of novel pathogens on northern peoples and ecosystems, I quantify population connectivity and pathogen presence in a sentinel Arctic species, the …
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Epidemiology of suburban deer
… This close relationship between humans and wildlife increases the risk for zoonotic disease transmission from many vectors, such as mosquitoes and ticks. There is limited research for suburban deer examining the relationship between zoonotic prevalence and ecological factors, such as …
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The Influence of Heterogeneous Landscapes on Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) Behavior in Northern Botswana: Inferences about Infectious Disease Transmission
Infectious disease transmission is driven by a complex suite of drivers with behavior and landscape dynamics contributing to epidemics across host-pathogen systems. However, our understanding of the interaction between landscape, behavior, and infectious disease remains limited. In the banded …
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Identifying patterns and processes of sex-biases for an emerging fungal disease of wildlife
… facilitated an increase in emerging infectious diseases, threatening biodiversity globally. Identifying the individuals, species, or communities most vulnerable to disease can guide the development of conservation priorities. Processes that structure individual variation, such as demography, can …
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Shifting disease dynamics following the invasion of an emerging wildlife pathogen
… significant impacts to human, agricultural and wildlife health. Introduced pathogens can change and adapt to new hosts (i.e. the species that they infect) and to new habitats. These factors can ultimately influence their impact on host populations over time. Understanding the changes that occur …
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Assessing threats to North American bats: impacts of white-nose syndrome and climate on reproduction and survival
… threat of extinction due to the newly emergent wildlife disease, white-nose syndrome (WNS). WNS is a fungal disease that has been causing catastrophic declines of bat populations in the eastern United States and Canada since it first emerged in 2006. The fungal pathogen, Pseudogymnoascus …