Thermoregulatory behaviour affects prevalence of chytrid fungal infection in a wild population of Panamanian golden frogs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1681, 2010, Pages 519-528

  Richards Zawacki, Corinne L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Behavioural fever; Chytridiomycosis; Host pathogen interactions; Thermoregulation

Indexed keywords

BODY TEMPERATURE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; EPIDEMIC; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; THERMOREGULATION; WILD POPULATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; ATELOPUS ZETEKI; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; RANA AURANTIACA;

EID: 76249132559     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1656     Document Type: Article

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