Context-dependent effects of ranaviral infection on northern leopard frog life history traits

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Echaubard, Pierre ^a   Little, Kevin ^a   Pauli, Bruce ^b   Lesbarréres, David ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GROWTH RATE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NONHUMAN; RANAVIRUS INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; TADPOLE; VIRUS CONCENTRATION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE; ANIMAL; DNA VIRUS INFECTION; FROG; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IRIDOVIRUS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; LITHOBATES; RANA PIPIENS; RANAVIRUS;

PRIMER DNA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA VIRUS INFECTIONS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; RANA PIPIENS; RANAVIRUS; VIRULENCE;

EID: 78149448351     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013723     Document Type: Article

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