Infectious disease screening of Indirana frogs from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot

Herpetological Review

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 554-557

  Nair, Abhilash ^a   Daniel, Olivia ^b   Gopalan, Sujith V ^c   George, Sanil ^c   Kumar, K Santhosh ^c   Merilä, Juha ^a   Teacher, Amber G F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; INDIRANA;

EID: 84858147569     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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