Avian Pox in Shearwaters on Lord Howe Island
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Avipoxvirus infections occur in a wide range of bird species worldwide. In Australia pox is common in the Australian magpie (Cracticus tibicen), Currawongs (Strepera spp.) and Silvereyes (Zosterops lateralis) but very little is known about the evolution of this family of viruses or the disease ecology of avian poxviruses in seabirds. Pox lesions have been seen in colonies of Shy Albatross (Thalassarche cauta) in Bass Strait but the epidemiology of pox in pelagic birds is not very well elucidated. Two novel avipoxvirus species demonstrated in Flesh-footed Shearwater (A. carneipes) and Wedge-tailed Shearwater (A. pacificus) (SWPV-2) recently discovered in birds from Lord Howe Island had relatively close relationships with Canarypox virus, particularly within the highly conserved polymerase gene of these viruses. This raised some concern regarding the potential for cosmopolitan pathogens to spill over into wildlife. However, the results highlight how mistakes in interpretation could occur if only highly conserved genes are used to detect and or characterise viral infections. The results also contribute to a deeper understanding of the genetic relationships and likely complex epidemiology among avipoxvirus species in wildlife species.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".