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. 1970 Mar;68(1):137–149. doi: 10.1017/s002217240002859x

Myxomatosis. The effect of age upon survival of wild and domestic rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) with a degree of genetic resistance and unselected domestic rabbits infected with myxoma virus

W R Sobey, Dorothy Conolly, P Haycock, J W Edmonds
PMCID: PMC2130786  PMID: 5267123

Abstract

The response of wild and domestic rabbits with a degree of genetic resistance to myxomatosis has been shown to be markedly affected by the age at which they were infected with a virulent strain of the virus. The response, in terms of mean survival time and percentage survival, fell with increasing age from 10 to 30 weeks with little change thereafter.

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