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Should we even worry about CWD anymore?
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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5930237" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>For whatever reason (and there are several possibilities) mule deer and elk are nowhere near as genetically diverse as whitetials. Any species that lacks genetic diversity is going to struggle more with an infectious disease, as nature has less variability to work from.</p><p></p><p>Looking at research from about a decade ago, the genetic coding that produces the protein that becomes converted to a CWD prion, elk have 4 known variations of that coding. Mule deer only have 3. At the time of the research, they had found whitetails had at least 83 variations of that code. That is a LOT of diversity to work from.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5930237, member: 17"] For whatever reason (and there are several possibilities) mule deer and elk are nowhere near as genetically diverse as whitetials. Any species that lacks genetic diversity is going to struggle more with an infectious disease, as nature has less variability to work from. Looking at research from about a decade ago, the genetic coding that produces the protein that becomes converted to a CWD prion, elk have 4 known variations of that coding. Mule deer only have 3. At the time of the research, they had found whitetails had at least 83 variations of that code. That is a LOT of diversity to work from. [/QUOTE]
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