Motile zoospores of batrachochytrium dendrobatidis move away from antifungal metabolites produced by amphibian skin bacteria

EcoHealth

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 36-45

  Lam, Brianna A ^a   Walton, D Brian ^a   Harris, Reid N ^a  

^a JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bacterially produced metabolites; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; chemotaxis; chytridiomycosis; symbiosis

Indexed keywords

2,4 DIACETYLPHLOROGLUCINOL; 2,4-DIACETYLPHLOROGLUCINOL; 3 INDOLECARBALDEHYDE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; INDOLE DERIVATIVE; INDOLE-3-CARBALDEHYDE; PHLOROGLUCINOL;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; CHEMOTAXIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DERMATOMYCOSIS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BACTERIA; CHEMOTAXIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; INDOLES; PHLOROGLUCINOL;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI;

EID: 84856241246     PISSN: 16129202     EISSN: 16129210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10393-011-0689-7     Document Type: Article

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