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Variation in European harbour seal immune response genes and susceptibility to phocine distemper virus (PDV).
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Oct 2011
McCarthy Alex J, Shaw Marie-Anne, Jepson Paul D, Brasseur Sophie M J M, Reijnders Peter J H, Goodman Simon J
Abstract excerpt
Phocine distemper virus (PDV) has caused two mass mortalities of European harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in recent decades. Levels of mortality varied considerably among European populations in both the 1988 and 2002 epidemics, with higher mortality in continental European populations in comparison to UK populations. High levels of genetic differentiation at neutral makers among seal populations allow for the...
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