Saprolegniaceae identified on amphibian eggs throughout the Pacific Northwest, USA, by internal transcribed spacer sequences and phylogenetic analysis

Mycologia

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 171-180

  Petrisko, Jill E ^a,d   Pearl, Christopher A ^b   Pilliod, David S ^c,e   Sheridan, Peter P ^a   Williams, Charles F ^a   Peterson, Charles R ^a   Bury, R Bruce ^b  

^a Nucl Eng Idaho State University   (United States)

^b FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^e FOREST AND RANGELAND ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Achlya; Amphibian decline; Egg; Lake; Leptolegnia; Oomycete; S. semihypogyna; Saprolegnia ferax

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; ASSESSMENT METHOD; EGG; FUNGUS; HATCHERY; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST; UNITED STATES;

ACHLYA; AMPHIBIA; FUNGI; LEPTOLEGNIA; SAPROLEGNIA; SAPROLEGNIA FERAX; SAPROLEGNIA SEMIHYPOGYNA; SAPROLEGNIACEAE;

RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; OOCYTE; OOMYCETES; PHYLOGENY; SAPROLEGNIA; UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALS; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; OOMYCETES; OVUM; PHYLOGENY; SAPROLEGNIA;

EID: 48249117155     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/mycologia.100.2.171     Document Type: Article

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