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Preserving and restoring natural habitats in specific locations could prevent pathogens that originate in wildlife from spilling over into domesticated animals and humans, according to new research led by an international team of researchers, including Penn State.
Preserving and restoring natural habitats in specific locations could prevent pathogens that originate in wildlife from spilling over into domesticated animals and humans, according to new research led by an international team of researchers, including Penn State.
Disease is shaping how wolves look in North America.
This is because the DNA region containing the gene also encodes for a protein that plays a role in defending against infections in the lungs of mammals.They predicted that having a black coat would be associated with the ability of wolves to survive an infection with CDV.To test this idea, the researchers analysed 12 wolf populations from North America, to examine whether the probability of a wolf being black was predicted by the presence of CDV antibodies.If a wolf has CDV antibodies, then it has caught CDV in the past and survived.
New research from the University of Oxford, Yellowstone National Park, and Penn State, published today in the journal Science, may have finally solved why wolve