Researchers will use genetic analyses to examine the relationships among rodents, fleas and plague bacteria as a way to further characterize how plague is perpetuated in wild animal reservoirs in the United States. Data generated by this study will be used to direct targeted management strategies of affected wild animal populations.

Researchers will test the susceptibility of the most endangered frog in North America to the emerging pathogen ranavirus.

This study investigates how broad-scale use of an anticoagulant rodenticide during an island rodent eradication project has affected the food web.

This study investigates whether obesity is a problem for African elephants in zoos, and if the condition is related to the high prevalence of ovarian acyclicity, which causes infertility, observed in this species.

The aim of this research is to use stem-cell therapy to eradicate tumor cells from Tasmanian devils suffering from devil facial tumor disease.

Researchers will investigate the epidemiology and control of a newly emerging strain of tuberculosis that is infecting and killing banded mongoose living in community and wildlife areas in Northern Botswana.

This study investigates how exposure to waterborne environmental pollutants in amphibians affects the development of protective immune defenses against a viral pathogen.

This study is working to identify and develop noninvasive diagnostic markers for bovine tuberculosis surveillance in deer.

Researchers will determine if mortality of Scottish newts caused by a parasitic infection will lead to the decline of newt populations on the Isle of Rum.

Researchers will investigate the role that koala retrovirus plays in causing common koala cancers.