Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease found in both free-ranging and farmed
cervids. Susceptibility of these animals to CWD is governed by various exogenous and …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) strains present a novel challenge to defining and mitigating
this contagious prion disease of deer, elk, moose, and reindeer. Similar to strains of other …

Many boreal populations of woodland caribou in Canada are declining, mainly due to the
prevalence of anthropogenic disturbances which alter predator-prey dynamics. Climate …

To date, chronic wasting disease (CWD) is the most infectious form of prion disease affecting
several captive, free ranging and wild cervid species. Responsible for marked population …

Habitat loss is affecting many species, including the southern mountain caribou (Rangifer
tarandus caribou) population in western North America. Over the last half century, this …

Conservation strategies for imperiled species are frequently based on identifying and
addressing the probable causes of population decline, an approach known as the declining …

Prions are proteinaceous infectious particles that replicate by structural conversion of the
host-encoded cellular prion protein (PrPC), causing fatal neurodegenerative diseases in …

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a prion disease affecting cervids. Polymorphisms in the
prion protein gene can result in extended survival of CWD-infected animals. However, the …

Understanding the relative importance of threats to species across their range is critical for
large-scale conservation planning. Scaling-up localized research to inform the Canada-wide …

Susceptibility of cervids to Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD), a prion disease, can be
modulated by variations in the prion protein gene (PRNP), encoding the cellular prion …