Behaviour of Australian rainforest stream frogs may affect the transmission of chytridiomycosis

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-9

  Rowley, Jodi J L ^a   Alford, Ross A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian chytrid fungus; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Behaviour; Chytridiomycosis; Disease transmission; Frogs

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXTINCTION; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; MASS MORTALITY; POPULATION DECLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RIVER; SEASON;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANURA; AUSTRALIA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; QUEENSLAND; RIVERS; SEASONS;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; LITORIA NANNOTIS; PTYCHOHYLA;

EID: 35649025770     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao01830     Document Type: Article

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