1.Reforestation of the northeastern U.S., for example, has led to the emergence of Lyme disease by encouraging the proliferation of white-tailed deer, which transport ticks that harbor the Lyme bacterium.
3.The comparison of the genes with white-tailed deer and red deer PrP gene revealed there are five base substitutions produced amino acid mutation, e.g. G57A, S100N, N173S, T177N and M208I;