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  • noun Plural form of ranavirus.

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Examples

  • In Britain, infections caused by a family of pathogens called ranaviruses, which emerged in the 1980s, are causing widespread deaths among some of the most common amphibians.

    EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • In Britain, infections caused by a family of pathogens called ranaviruses, which emerged in the 1980s, are causing widespread deaths among some of the most common amphibians.

    Environment news, comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk Ian Sample 2008

  • In Britain, infections caused by a family of pathogens called ranaviruses, which emerged in the 1980s, are causing widespread deaths among some of the most common amphibians.

    British Blogs 2008

  • In Britain, infections caused by a family of pathogens called ranaviruses, which emerged in the 1980s, are causing widespread deaths among some of the most common amphibians.

    Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed 2008

  • SF Walker et al. Ecology and pathology of amphibian ranaviruses

    Wildlife Disease News Digest noreply@blogger.com (Wildlife Disease Information 2010

  • SF Walker et al. Ecology and pathology of amphibian ranaviruses

    Wildlife Disease News Digest 2010

  • Scientists did locate ranaviruses however, and some were taken back to Australia to be stored and studied at the Animal Health Lab in Geelong.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

  • In 2006, ranaviruses were detected in the tiger salamander bait trade between May and October in Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado but weren't found in the bait shops sampled in Nebraska and Texas.

    Latest News - UPI.com 2009

  • But James Collins, assistant director for biological sciences at the National Science Foundation, and Angela Picco of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, discovered salamanders in bait shops in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico are infected with ranaviruses, and those in Arizona with a chytrid fungus called Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.

    Latest News - UPI.com 2009

  • Scientists did locate ranaviruses however, and some were taken back to Australia to be stored and studied at the Animal Health Lab in Geelong.

    Mongabay.com News 2009

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