An immunological and immunogenetic approach to understand and to protect Tasmanian devils against Devil Facial Tumour Disease

塔斯马尼亚魔鬼是世界上现存的最大的食肉有袋类动物。从环境的角度来看，魔鬼通过觅食发挥着基本的作用。死亡和濒临死亡的动物每晚都会从塔斯马尼亚的风景中移走，因此腐烂的身体不需要移走。失去这种顶级清道夫将改变生物多样性的平衡，非本土动物(如狐狸、野猫、乌鸦，甚至欧洲黄蜂)将争夺这个清道夫角色。由于这些动物是非选择性的，它们还会捕食活着的动物和塔斯马尼亚的许多本地动物(如东部条纹袋鼠、袋鼠、袋鼠等)。将受到严重威胁，我们的生物多样性景观可能会不可逆转地改变。

The Tasmanian devil is the world's largest living carnivorous marsupial. From an environmental perspective, devils play a fundamental role through scavenging. Dead and dying animals were removed nightly from Tasmania's landscape and therefore decaying carcases did not require removal. Loss of this top order scavenger will alter the balance of biodiversity and non-native animals (such as foxes, feral cats, crows, and even European wasps) will then compete for this scavenger role. As these animals are non-selective they will also prey on living animals and many of Tasmania's native animals (such as Eastern barred bandicoot, potoroos, quolls etc.) will be seriously threatened and our biodiverse landscape could be irreversibly altered.