April 6, 2021 5:54 pm
New research has suggested growing populations of Sika deer may be linked to local outbreaks of bovine TB in cattle in the Republic of Ireland.
The study, which was conducted by researchers from Trinity College Dublin and the National Parks and Wildlife Service with support from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, could have major implications for controlling bovine TB.
Although bTB infection rates have decreased in general in recent decades, county-level data shows a correlation between higher Sika numbers and higher local TB infections – with County Wicklow a particular hotspot.
The research, which has been published in the journal
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Credit: Dr Emma Tomlinson, Trinity College Dublin.
Geologists have developed a new theory about the state of Earth billions of years ago after examining the very old rocks formed in the Earth s mantle below the continents.
Assistant Professor Emma Tomlinson from Trinity College Dublin and Queensland University of Technology s Professor Balz Kamber have just published their research in leading international journal,
Nature Communications.
The seven continents on Earth today are each built around a stable interior called a craton, and geologists believe that craton stabilisation some 2.5 - 3 billion years ago was critical to the emergence of land masses on Earth.
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