Effects of temperature and hydric environment on survival of the Panamanian golden frog infected with a pathogenic chytrid fungus

Integrative Zoology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-153

  Bustamante, Heidi M ^a   Livo, Lauren J ^a   Carey, Cynthia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian declines; Atelopus zeteki; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; Climatelinked epidemic hypothesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; PANAMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE; TOAD;

ANIMALS; BUFONIDAE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GLOBAL WARMING; HUMIDITY; MYCOSES; PANAMA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

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

EID: 78651299896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17494877     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-4877.2010.00197.x     Document Type: Article

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