Modeling chronic wasting disease transmission risk in mule deer related to habitat characteristics
Table 2
Numbers of GPS-collared mule deer used in models predicting relative risk of a deer newly testing positive for chronic wasting disease based on habitat visited by the deer. Deer individuals were identified by genotype and were either homozygous for serine at codon 225 (“SS” genotype), or were heterozygous/homozygous for phenylalanine at codon 225 (“*F” genotype). All individuals included in models did not test positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD) on first capture. The total number of individuals in each genotype group is further broken down into individuals that never tested positive for chronic wasting disease for the duration of the study (“Remained CWD-“) and those that had tested positive by the end of the study (“Became CWD+”). All individuals in this analysis are female.