Seasonal variation in the detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in a Texas population of blanchard's cricket frog (Acris crepitans blanchardi)

Herpetological Review

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 184-187

  Gaertner, James P ^a   Gaston, Michele A ^a   Danaspontak, ^a   Forstner, Michael R J ^a   Hahn, Dittmar ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRIS; ACRIS CREPITANS BLANCHARDI; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS;

EID: 77953813846     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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