The ecology and impact of chytridiomycosis: an emerging disease of amphibians

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 109-118

  Kilpatrick, A Marm ^a   Briggs, Cheryl J ^b   Daszak, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ECOHEALTH ALLIANCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST RANGE; POPULATION DECLINE; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; REVIEW;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; MYCOSES;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS;

EID: 74049157816     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2009.07.011     Document Type: Review

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