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Gray, M. J., & Miller, D. L. (2013). The rise of ranavirus. The Wildlife Society News, Spring 2013(March 17, 2013).
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Resource type: Journal Article BibTeX citation key: Gray2013 View all bibliographic details ![]() |
Categories: General Keywords: Amphibien - amphibians, Emydidae, Habitat - habitat, Nordamerika - North America, Schildkröten - turtles + tortoises, Terrapene carolina, Veterinärmedizin - veterinary medicine, Viren - viruses Creators: Gray, Miller Collection: The Wildlife Society News |
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Abstract |
Ranaviruses have been called “cold-blooded killers” (Chinchar 2002) for good reason — they are capable of causing illness and death in three ectothermic vertebrate classes (amphibians, reptiles, and fish). Experiments have also demonstrated that the virus can be passed among these groups (called interclass transmission; Bandin and Dopazo 2011), likely facilitating its persistence in aquatic systems. Ranaviruses were discovered in the 1960s (Granoff et al. 1965), yet their role in widespread die-offs of ectothermic vertebrates wasn’t realized until the 1990s (Gray et al. 2009). Researchers are now racing to determine what makes ranaviruses so virulent and capable of infecting so many hosts (Lesbarrères et al. 2012). Terrapene carolina
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