Susceptibility of Italian agile frog populations to an emerging strain of Ranavirus parallels population genetic diversity

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 401-408

  Pearman, Peter B ^a,b   Garner, Trenton W J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Disease emergence; Frog virus 3; Habitat fragmentation; Heterozygosity; Inbreeding; Iridovirus; Pathogen; Ranavirus; Resistance; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

FROG; GENETIC VARIATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MORALITY; POPULATION GENETICS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; FROG VIRUS 3; IRIDOVIRUS; RANA DALMATINA; RANA LATASTEI; RANAVIRUS;

EID: 17444370181     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00735.x     Document Type: Article

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