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Viruses for Landscape-Scale Therapy: Biological Control of Rabbits in Australia.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2021
Kerr Peter J, Hall Robyn N, Strive Tanja
Abstract excerpt
Viral diseases, whether of animals or humans, are normally considered as problems to be managed. However, in Australia, two viruses have been used as landscape-scale therapeutics to control European rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus), the preeminent invasive vertebrate pest species. Rabbits have caused major environmental and agricultural losses and contributed to extinction of native species. It was not until the...
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