Disease associated with integumentary and cloacal parasites in tadpoles of northern red-legged frog Rana aurora aurora

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 61-71

  Nieto, Nathan C ^a,b   Camann, Michael A ^a   Foley, Janet E ^b   Reiss, John O ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chytridiomycosis; Parasite diversity; Protozoal parasites; Tadpoles; Unusual morbidity

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; ETIOLOGY; FROG; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LARVA; MORBIDITY; PARASITE; PARASITISM; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; APIOSOMA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; HIRUDINIDA; PROTOZOA; RANA AURORA AURORA; TREMATODA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CLOACA; CYTOCHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; FROG; INTEGUMENT; LARVA; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TREMATODIASIS; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CALIFORNIA; CLOACA; ECOSYSTEM; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MYCOSES; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAN INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; RANIDAE; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

EID: 39749202299     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao01851     Document Type: Article

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