Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on amphibians in Pursat Province, Cambodia

Herpetological Review

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 542-545

  Mendoza II, Joseph A ^a   Gaertner, James P ^a   Holden, Jeremy ^b   Forstner, Michael R J ^a   Hahn, Dittmar ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FAUNA AND FLORA INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS;

EID: 84858127913     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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