Table 2. Experimental details for experiment 4.
Enclosure | Total # of deermice | Donor deermouse | # Susceptible deermice | Transmission event (TE) deermice | # TE deermice |
1 | 8 | D1 | 7 | TE1-E1, TE2-E1,TE3-E1,TE4-E1, TE5-E1 | 5 |
2 | 4 | D2 | 3 | None | 0 |
3 | 8 | D3 | 7 | TE8-E3 | 1 |
4 | 4 | D4 | 3 | TE6-E4,TE7-E4 | 2 |
5 | 4 | D5a*, D5b | 3 | None | 0 |
6 | 8 | D6 | 7 | None | 0 |
We recovered the remains of the original donor (5a) in enclosure 5 on week 4, and substituted a new donor (5b).