Critical windows of disease risk: Amphibian pathology driven by developmental changes in host resistance and tolerance

Functional Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 726-734

  Johnson, Pieter T J ^a   Kellermanns, Esra ^a   Bowerman, Jay ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Sunriver Nature Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian decline; Emerging disease; Infectious disease; Malformations; Parasite; Ribeiroia; Trematode

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; CLIMATE PREDICTION; DISEASE RESISTANCE; FLATWORM; FROG; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LIFE HISTORY; LIMB; METAMORPHOSIS; MORTALITY RISK; PATHOLOGY; POPULATION DECLINE; TOLERANCE; VULNERABILITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RIBEIROIA; RIBEIROIA ONDATRAE; TREMATODA;

EID: 79955501127     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2010.01830.x     Document Type: Article

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