Molecular toolkit unlocks life cycle of the panzootic amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 45, 2008, Pages 17209-17210

  Fisher, Matthew C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULLIN; METALLOPROTEINASE; PRESENILIN;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; AMPHIBIA; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CELL ADHESION; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; COMPARATIVE GENE MAPPING; DERMATOPHYTE; FROG; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIFE CYCLE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPORANGIUM; ZOOSPORE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENOMICS; LIFE CYCLE STAGES;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS;

EID: 56249090046     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809801105     Document Type: Note

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