A rapid technique to detect chytrid infection in adult frogs

Herpetological Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 124-126

  Briggs, Candida ^a   Burgin, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

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ANIMALIA; ANURA;

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