Modelling the spatial dynamics of parapoxvirus disease in red and grey squirrels: a possible cause of the decline in the red squirrel in the UK?

By Steve Rushton, P. Lurz, J. Gurnell, R. Fuller. 2000

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Dogs Canis familiaris as carnivores: their role and function in intraguild competition (2009, background): “…the replacement is mediated by parapox virus; the differential sensitivity of the two host species to the virus allows one species to act as a reservoir for the parasite, which in turn results in population decline of the second host species (Rushton et al., 2000; Tompkins, White & Boots, 2003).”
Spread and attempted eradication of the grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Italy, and consequences for the red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) in Eurasia (2003, background): “A role of parapoxvirus in the replacement of reds by greys in the UK has also been hypothesised (Sainsbury et al., 1997, 2000; Rushton et al., 2000): the grey squirrel is believed to act as a reservoir host of this virus (Duff et al., 1996; Sainsbury et al., 1997, 2000).”
Mechanisms of disease‐induced extinction (2004, background): “Other examples include the parapoxvirus-mediated competitive exclusion of red squirrels by gray squirrels (Rushton et al. 2000); the spillover effects of rabies and canine distemper from domestic dogs to the threatened Ethiopian wolf (C. simensis) (Haydon et al. 2002); and the spillover of…”
Competition and parasitism in the native White Clawed Crayfish Austropotamobius pallipes and the invasive Signal Crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus in the UK (2009, background): “Whilst T. contejeani has previously been reported from Austropotamobius pallipes in the UK (Brown and Bowler 1977; Edgerton et al. 2002; Rogers et al. 2003 ), these reports were based on light microscopy and lack the ultrastructural or molecular information to confirm species identity (Dunn and Smi”
Invading with biological weapons: the importance of disease‐mediated invasions (2012, methodology): “The first model that included disease and competition was an extension of these individual rule-based models (Rushton et al. 1997, 2000).”
Ecological replacement of native red squirrels by invasive greys driven by disease (2003, background): “It was assumed that parapoxvirus is transmitted at the same rate (b) both within and between each squirrel species, because the likely route of infection is via environmental contamination (Rushton et al. 2000), and field evidence suggests that habitat partitioning between the two species does not o”