To lose both would look like carelessness: Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease

Hamish McCallum; Menna Jones

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040342

To lose both would look like carelessness: Tasmanian devil facial tumour disease

PLoS Biol. 2006 Oct;4(10):e342. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040342.

Authors

Hamish McCallum¹, Menna Jones

Affiliation

¹ School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. h.mccallum@uq.edu.au

Abstract

How can you manage an emerging disease threat--in this case, Tasmanian devil facial tumor disease--that poses a serious conservation threat, when so little is known about the disease?

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animal Diseases / pathology*
Animals
Conservation of Natural Resources
Disease Transmission, Infectious
Ecology
Environment
Extinction, Biological
Face / pathology
Facial Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Facial Neoplasms / etiology
Marsupialia
Models, Biological
Tasmania
Time Factors