Multiple emergences of genetically diverse amphibian-infecting chytrids include a globalized hypervirulent recombinant lineage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 46, 2011, Pages 18732-18736

  Farrer, Rhys A ^a,b   Weinert, Lucy A ^a   Bielby, Jon ^b   Garner, Trenton W J ^b   Balloux, Francois ^a   Clare, Frances ^a,b   Bosch, Jaime ^c   Cunningham, Andrew A ^b   Weldon, Che ^d   Du Preez, Louis H ^d   Anderson, Lucy ^b   Kosakovsky Pond, Sergei L ^e   Shahar Golan, Revital ^a   Henk, Daniel A ^a   Fisher, Matthew C ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^d NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Chytridiomycosis; Epidemiology; Extinction; Infectious disease

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; EUROPE; FUNGAL GENOME; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GLOBAL PANZOOTIC LINEAGE; HETEROZYGOSITY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CELL LINEAGE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VIRULENCE;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 81755187011     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111915108     Document Type: Article

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