Thank you to all who helped contribute to my web page, and a special thanks to those who granted me permission to use their images!

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and Mr. Daniel F. Jones

Mr. Martin Stumpe

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mr. Robert McCusker

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Kretzschmar HA.  1999.  Molecular pathogenesis of prion diseases.  Research Support, Government 249:56-63

 

Prusiner SB; Scott MR.  1997.  Genetics of prions.  Annual Review Of Genetics 31:139-175

 

Prusiner, Stanley B.  1995.  The Prion Diseases.  Scientific American 272:48

 

 

Harris, D.  (2004). Mad Cow Disease and Related Spongiform Encephalopahties.  New York.  Springer-Verlag Berlin Heilelberg. 

 

Belay, Ermias D.  2005  The Public Health Impact of Prion Diseases.  Annual Revenue of Public Health 26: 191-212.

 

Schneider, Igor; Schneider, Horacio; Schneider, Maria Paula; Silva, Artur.  2004.  The prion protein and New World primate phylogeny.  Genetics and Molecular Biology 27, 4:505-510.

 

Acutis, Pier Luigi; Peletto, Simone; Grego, Elena; Colussi, Silvia; Riina Vittoria Maria; Rosati, Serigo, Mignone, Walter; Caramelli, Maria.  2007.  Comparative analysis of the prion protein gene in cetacean species. Science Direct 329:230-238.

 

University of Utah.  (2008)  Prions: On The Trail of Killer Proteins.  Retrieved April 16, 2008, from http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/features/prions/.