Seasonal pattern of batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection and mortality in lithobates areolatus: Affirmation of vredenburg's "10,000 zoospore rule"

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Kinney, Vanessa C ^a   Heemeyer, Jennifer L ^a   Pessier, Allan P ^b   Lannoo, Michael J ^c  

^a INDIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CONSERVATION RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Indiana University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BREEDING; BURROWING SPECIES; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FROG; HABITAT; INFECTION RATE; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LIFE HISTORY; LITHOBATES AREOLATUS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; SUMMER; WATER TABLE; WETLAND; WINTER; ZOOSPORE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; FROGS AND TOADS; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; ASTACOIDEA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; LITHOBATES; RANA AREOLATA;

FRESH WATER;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FRESH WATER; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOSES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952505294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016708     Document Type: Article

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