Resistance is skin-deep: Innate immunity may help amphibians to survive a deadly fungus

Animal Conservation

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 422-424

  Kurtz, Joachim ^a   Scharsack, J P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY   (Germany)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; FUNGI;

EID: 35648987994     PISSN: 13679430     EISSN: 14691795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-1795.2007.00149.x     Document Type: Note

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