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Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: lessons for conservation biology
Citation
McCallum, HI, Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease: lessons for conservation biology, Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 23, (11) pp. 631-637. ISSN 0169-5347 (2008) [Refereed Article]
DOI: doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.001
Abstract
Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease is an infectious cancer that threatens the largest surviving marsupial carnivore with extinction. After emerging in 1996, it has spread across most of the range of the species, leading to a population decline of more than 60%. This bizarre disease, in which the cancer cells themselves are the infective agent, illustrates some important general principles about disease and conservation biology, including the threat posed by loss of genetic diversity and the potential of pathogens with frequency-dependent transmission to cause extinction.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Refereed Article |
|---|---|
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Environmental management |
| Research Field: | Conservation and biodiversity |
| Objective Division: | Environmental Management |
| Objective Group: | Terrestrial systems and management |
| Objective Field: | Terrestrial biodiversity |
| UTAS Author: | McCallum, HI (Professor Hamish McCallum) |
| ID Code: | 53067 |
| Year Published: | 2008 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 109 |
| Deposited By: | Zoology |
| Deposited On: | 2008-10-24 |
| Last Modified: | 2013-02-26 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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