Differential Host Susceptibility toBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis, an Emerging Amphibian Pathogen

Conservation Biology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 965-974

  Searle, C L ^a   Gervasi, S S ^a   Hua, J ^b   Hammond, J I ^b   Relyea, R A ^b   Olson, D H ^c   Blaustein, A R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibian population declines; Anaxyrus; Chytridiomycosis; Declinaciones de poblaciones de anfibios; Hyla; Lithobates; Pseudacris; Quitridiomicosis; Rana

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATION STATUS; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; MORTALITY; OPTIMIZATION; POPULATION DECLINE; TOAD;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DERMATOMYCOSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FROGS AND TOADS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

UNITED STATES;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BUFO TERRESTRIS; HYLA; LITHOBATES; PSEUDACRIS; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 80052594083     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2011.01708.x     Document Type: Article

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