Survey protocol for detecting chytridiomycosis in all Australian frog populations

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 85-94

  Skerratt, Lee F ^a   Berger, Lee ^a   Hines, Harry B ^b   McDonald, Keith R ^b   Mendez, Diana ^a   Speare, Richard ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytrid fungus; Decline; Disease; Mapping

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DETECTION METHOD; FROG; FUNGUS; MAPPING METHOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DECLINE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; FEMALE; FROGS AND TOADS; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANURA; AUSTRALIA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FEMALE; MALE; MYCOSES; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; MYOBATRACHIDAE;

EID: 49649103174     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao01923     Document Type: Article

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