Prefer a chat interface with context about you and your work?
A metapopulation model of the spread of the Devil Facial Tumour Disease predicts the long term collapse of its host but not its extinction
Abstract The Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD), a unique case of a transmissible cancer, had a devastating effect on its host, the Tasmanian Devil. Current estimates of its density are at roughly 20% of the pre-disease state, and single-population epidemiological models have predicted the likely extinction of the host. Here …