All hosts are not equal: Explaining differential patterns of malformations in an amphibian community

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 191-201

  Johnson, Pieter T J ^a   Hartson, Richard B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Amphibian deformities; Community interactions; Disease ecology

Indexed keywords

ABNORMALITY; AMPHIBIAN; DISEASE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FLATWORM; FROG; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; METAMORPHOSIS; PATHOGEN; SURVIVAL; TOAD; WETLAND;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; FROGS AND TOADS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SNAIL; SURVIVAL; TIME; TREMATODE; TREMATODIASIS;

ANIMALS; ANURA; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; SEASONS; SNAILS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREMATODA; TREMATODE INFECTIONS;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BUFO AMERICANUS; CERCARIA (TREMATODE GENUS); HYLA; HYLA VERSICOLOR; RIBEIROIA; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 57549094830     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2008.01455.x     Document Type: Article

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