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SUBMITTER: Wells K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6759051 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wells Konstans K Hamede Rodrigo K RK Kerlin Douglas H DH Storfer Andrew A Hohenlohe Paul A PA Jones Menna E ME McCallum Hamish I HI
Ecology letters 20170510 6
Emerging infectious diseases rarely affect all members of a population equally and determining how individuals' susceptibility to infection is related to other components of their fitness is critical to understanding disease impacts at a population level and for predicting evolutionary trajectories. We introduce a novel state-space model framework to investigate survival and fecundity of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) affected by a transmissible cancer, devil facial tumour disease. We s ...[more]