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Paltry past‐precipitation: Predisposing prairie dogs to plague?

2017-08-01

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The plague bacterium Yersinia pestis was introduced to California in 1900 and spread rapidly as a sylvatic disease of mammalian hosts and flea vectors, invading the Great Plains in the United States by the 1930s to 1940s. In grassland ecosystems, plague causes periodic, devastating epizootics in colonies of black‐tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus), sciurid rodents that create and maintain subterranean burr...

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Literature Corpus work: 58cb74df-9352-5b77-91f2-0abaa9fce3c2
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21281

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