County-wide assessments of Illinois white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) prion protein gene variation using improved primers and potential implications for management

• Daniel B. Raudabaugh ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nohram@illinois.edu (NEMP); raudaba2@illinois.edu (DBR)

  Affiliation Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5547-7293

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• Yasuko Ishida,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8646-1291

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• Nicholas J. Haley,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Midwestern University, Glendale, AZ, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0502-7862

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• William M. Brown,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1734-8620

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• Jan Novakofski,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2890-8892

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• Alfred L. Roca,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Nohra E. Mateus-Pinilla

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: nohram@illinois.edu (NEMP); raudaba2@illinois.edu (DBR)

  Affiliations Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Animal Science, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2732-7359

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