Adaptations of skin peptide defences and possible response to the amphibian chytrid fungus in populations of Australian green-eyed treefrogs, Litoria genimaculata

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 703-712

  Woodhams, Douglas C ^a   Kenyon, Nicole ^b   Bell, Sara C ^b   Alford, Ross A ^b   Chen, Shuo ^c   Billheimer, Dean ^c   Shyr, Yu ^c   Rollins Smith, Louise A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial peptide; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Innate immunity; MALDI mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; DISEASE RESISTANCE; EMERGENCE; FROG; FUNGUS; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LOWLAND ENVIRONMENT; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PEPTIDE; POPULATION BOTTLENECK; POPULATION DECLINE; SELECTION; SKIN;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; HYLA; LITORIA GENIMACULATA;

EID: 77954652835     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2010.00666.x     Document Type: Article

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