Spatial and temporal patterns of prion gene variation are consistent with a response to chronic wasting disease induced selection in wild white-tailed deer

There are six associated files, four datafiles, and two R-script files. The main dataset consists of genotypes of the PNRP gene for mule deer and white-tail deer in Alberta, which includes both CWD negative and positive deer.

There are two paired data-script files, one set is the data to examine the relationship of allelic variation at the 96 locus in the white-tail deer PRNP gene, and the script contains code to examine what covariates explain the spatial variation in the locus at the wildlife management unit level. The second pair, contains all WTD individual genotypes for the 96 locus and the script contains code to examine whether the effects of the locus on CWD status are additive or dominant.