Research by scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo is published in a number of well-regarded scientific publications. Below are some of the papers related to the EEHV lab’s work, EEHV in general and the Zoo’s elephant genetics research.
| Identification of two new probosciviruses (EEHV5 and EEHV6) and two new gammaherpesviruses (EGHV3B and EGHV5): Veterinary Microbiology, 147(1-2), 28-41 (2011) | ||
| Authors: Latimer E, Zong JC, Heaggans SY, Richman LK, Hayward GS. | ||
| Detection of pathogenic elephant endotheliotropic herpesvirus in routine trunk washes from healthy adult Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) by use of a real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction assay: American Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 71 (8), 925-933 (2010) | ||
| Authors: Jeffrey J. Stanton, Jian-Chao Zong, Erin Latimer, Jie Tan, Alan Herron, Gary S. Hayward, Paul D. Ling | ||
| Clinico-pathologic Features of Fatal Disease Attributed to New Variants of Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses in Two Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus): Veterinary Pathology, 46, 97–104 (2009) | ||
| Authors: M.M. Garner, K. Helmick, J. Ochsenreiter, L.K. Richman, E. Latimer, A.G. Wise, R. K. Maes, M. Kiupel, R.W. Nordhausen, J.C. Zong, and G.S. Hayward. | ||
| Major histocompatibility complex variation and evolution at a single, expressed DQA locus in two genera of elephants: Immunogenetics (2009) | ||
| Authors: Elizabeth A. Archie, Tammy Henry, Jesus E. Maldonado, Cynthia J. Moss, Joyce H. Poole, Virginia R. Pearson, Suzan Murray, Susan C. Alberts, Robert C. Fleischer | ||
| Novel Mammalian Herpesviruses and Lineages within the Gammaherpesvirinae: Cospeciation and Interspecies Transfer: Journal of Virology, 82 (7), 3509-3516 (2008) | ||
| Authors: Bernhard Ehlers, Gu¨zin Dural, Nezlisah Yasmum, Tiziana Lembo, Benoit de Thoisy, Marie-Pierre Ryser-Degiorgis, Rainer G. Ulrich, Duncan J. McGeoch | ||
| Fine-scale population genetic structure in a fission–fusion society: Molecular Ecology, 17, 2666–2679 (2008) | ||
| Authors: Elizabeth A. Archie, Jesús Maldonado, Julie A. Hollister-Smith, Joyce H. Poole, Cynthia J. Moss, Robert C. Fleischer, Susan C. Alberts | ||
| Physiological indicators of stress in African forest elephants (Loxodontaafricana cyclotis) in relation to petroleum operations in Gabon, Central Africa: Diversity and Distributions, 14, 995–1003 (2008) | ||
| Authors: Jason Munshi-South, Landry Tchignoumba, Janine Brown, Nicole Abbondanza, Jésus E. Maldonado, Ann Henderson, Alfonso Alonso | ||
| Behavioural inbreeding avoidance in wild African elephants: Molecular Ecology, 16, 4138–4148 (2007) | ||
| Authors: Elizabeth A. Archie, Julie A. Hollister-Smith, Joyce H. Poole, Phyllis C. Lee, Cynthia J. Moss, Jesús Maldonado, Robert C. Fleischer, Susan Alberts | ||
| The Knysna elephants: a population study conducted using faecal DNAb: African Journal of Ecology, 46, 19-23 (2007) | ||
| Authors: Lori S. Eggert, Gareth Patterson, Jesús E. Maldonado | ||
| Use of famciclovir for the treatment of endotheliotrophic herpesvirus infections in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus): Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, 31(4), 518–522 (2000) | ||
| Authors: Dennis L. Schmitt, Douglas A. Hardy, Richard J. Montali, Laura K. Richman, William A. Lindsay, Ramiro Isaza, Gary West | ||
| Clinical and Pathological Findings of a Newly Recognized Disease of Elephants Caused by Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses: Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 36 (1), 1–12 (2000) | ||
| Authors: Laura K. Richman, Richard J. Montali, Richard C. Cambre, Dennis Schmitt, Douglas Hardy, Thomas Hildbrandt, Roy G. Bengis, Fayez M. Hamzeh, Akbar Shahkolahi, Gary S. Hayward | ||
| Novel Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses Fatal for Asian and African Elephants: Science, 283, 1171-1176 (1999) | ||
| Authors: Laura K. Richman, Richard J. Montali, Richard L. Garber, Melissa A. Kennedy, John Lehnhardt, Thomas Hildebrandt, Dennis Schmitt, Douglas Hardy, Donald J. Alcendor, Gary S. Hayward | ||
| Pharmacokinetics of a Single Dose of Enrofloxacin administered orally in captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus: )American Journal of Vet Research, 1948-53 (2005) | ||
| Authors: C. Sanchez, S. Murray, R. Isaza, M.G. Papich | ||