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Landscape genetics of the Tasmanian devil: implications for spread of an infectious cancer
2017-12-01
Abstract excerpt
Emerging infectious diseases are increasingly recognized in species’ declines and extinctions. Landscape genetics can be used as a tool to predict disease emergence and spread. The Tasmanian devil is threatened with extinction by a nearly 100% fatal transmissible cancer, which has spread across 95% of the species’ geographic range in 20 years. Here, we present a landscape genetic analysis in the last remaining uni...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 2730a235-5e63-59f0-af7f-dbdc312a33b0
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10592-017-0980-4