Fig. 3: Survival curves for prion-infected mule deer ultimately killed by mountain lions or end-stage chronic wasting disease at Table Mesa. | Communications Biology

Fig. 3: Survival curves for prion-infected mule deer ultimately killed by mountain lions or end-stage chronic wasting disease at Table Mesa.

From: Apparent stability masks underlying change in a mule deer herd with unmanaged chronic wasting disease

Fig. 3

Kaplin-Meier survival curves for chronic wasting disease (CWD)-infected mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus) killed by mountain lions (Puma concolor; lighter tan line) or succumbing to end-stage clinical disease (darker red line). Survival distributions for infected deer killed by mountain lions (n = 18) or clinical CWD (n = 26) differed (Mantel’s logrank test, two-tailed, without continuity correction, P = 0.037). Data include infected deer homozygous for serine at PRNP codon 225 monitored at Table Mesa herd near Boulder, Colorado, USA, during 2005–2008 or 2018–2020.

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