Widespread historical presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in African pipid frogs

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 126-131

  Soto Azat, Claudio ^a,b   Clarke, Barry T ^c   Poynton, John C ^c   Cunningham, Andrew A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD ANDRÉS BELLO   (Chile)

^c DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Declining amphibian populations; Emerging infectious disease; Museum specimens; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIMB; MOVEMENT; MUSEUM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DECLINE; REAL TIME; SPECIES CONSERVATION; VIRULENCE;

ENGLAND; LONDON [ENGLAND]; SOUTH AFRICA; UNITED KINGDOM;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; PIPIDAE; XENOPUS FRASERI;

EID: 74549217851     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2009.00618.x     Document Type: Article

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