Agrochemicals increase trematode infections in a declining amphibian species

Nature

Volumn 455, Issue 7217, 2008, Pages 1235-1239

  Rohr, Jason R ^a,b   Schotthoefer, Anna M ^c   Raffel, Thomas R ^a,b   Carrick, Hunter J ^b   Halstead, Neal ^a   Hoverman, Jason T ^d   Johnson, Catherine M ^e   Johnson, Lucinda B ^e   Lieske, Camilla ^c   Piwoni, Marvin D ^f   Schoff, Patrick K ^e   Beasley, Val R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL; ATRAZINE; PHOSPHATE;

AGROCHEMICAL; FLATWORM; FROG; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; POPULATION DECLINE; SNAIL;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; FROG; MESOCOSM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TADPOLE; TREMATODIASIS;

ALGAE; AMPHIBIA; GASTROPODA; PLATYHELMINTHES; RANA PIPIENS; TREMATODA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 55249109440     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07281     Document Type: Article

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