Absence of infection with the amphibian chytrid fungus in the terrestrial alpine salamander, salamandra atra

Salamandra

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 58-62

  Lötters, Stefan ^a   Kielgast, Jos ^a,b   Sztatecsny, Marc ^c   Wagner, Norman ^a   Schulte, Ulrich ^a   Werner, Philine ^a,c,d   Rödder, Dennis ^e   Dambach, Johannes ^e   Reissner, Timo ^d   Hochkirch, Axel ^a   Schmidt, Benedikt R ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d KARCH Switzerland   (Switzerland)

^e ZOOLOGISCHES FORSCHUNGSMUSEUM ALEXANDER KOENIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; FUNGI; SALAMANDRA; SALAMANDRA ATRA; SALAMANDROIDEA;

EID: 84860286863     PISSN: 00363375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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