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9780521112963

Myxomatosis

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521112963

  • ISBN10:

    0521112966

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-06-18
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The outbreaks of myxomatosis among rabbits in Australia in 1950 and in Europe in 1952 provided scientists with opportunities of observing the course of the interaction of a very lethal virus disease with a large population of highly susceptible mammals, i.e. with a model system to study the evolution of an infectious disease, and the effects of an infectious disease on the evolution of a mammal. This scientific account of the spread of the disease in Australia and Europe, of its effects upon rabbit numbers, and of the genetic changes that occurred in parasite and host, is of great interest to ecologists, virologists, parasitologists, mammalian zoologists, geneticists, agriculturists, and public health workers, as well as to those directly concerned with rabbit raising or control.

Table of Contents

History and distribution of myxomatosis
The Leporidae
The rabbit in Australia
Rabbit biology and behaviour
Myxoma virus: its classification, structure and properties
Interactions between myxoma virus and the host cell
the host range of myxoma and fibroma viruses
Myxomatosis in Oryctolagus cuniculus: pathogenesis and histopathology
Myxomatosis in Oryctolagus cuniculus: the immunological response
Myxomatosis in Oryctolagus cuniculus: environmental effects
Mechanisms of transmission of myxomatosis
Transmission in the field: Australian observations
Changes in the virulence of myxoma virus for Oryctolagus cuniculus
Changes in the genetic resistance of Oryctolagus cuniculus to myxomatosis
Myxomatosis in the Americas
Myxomatosis in Australia, 1950-63
Myxomatosis in Europe, 1936-63
The continuing evolution of myxomatosis
Map
Bibliography
Index
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