Hybrid advantage in skin peptide immune defenses of water frogs (Pelophylax esculentus) at risk from emerging pathogens

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1854-1864

  Daum, Janine M ^a,c   Davis, Leyla R ^b   Bigler, Laurent ^b   Woodhams, Douglas C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FRIEDRICH MIESCHER INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Amphibian; Antimicrobial peptides; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Chytridiomycosis; MALDI MS; Rana esculenta

Indexed keywords

BRADYKININ; BRADYKININ DERIVATIVE; BRADYKININ[1-7]; BRADYKININ[1-8]; BREVININ 1E; BREVININ 1EA; BREVININ 1EB; BREVININ 1EC; BREVININ 1ECB; BREVININ 2E; BREVININ 2EA; BREVININ 2EB; BREVININ 2EC; BREVININ 2ED; BREVININ 2EE; BREVININ 2EF; BREVININ 2EG; BREVININ 2EH; BREVININ 2EI; BREVININ 2EJ; BREVININ 2EK; BREVININ 2R; BREVININ 2RA; BREVININ 2RB; BREVININ 2RC; BREVININ 2RD; ESCULENTIN 1; ESCULENTIN 1A; POLYPEPTIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ANURA; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HYBRIDIZATION; IMMUNITY; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN; SKIN GLAND; WATER FROG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NOREPINEPHRINE; RANIDAE; SKIN; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; PELOPHYLAX; RANA ESCULENTA;

EID: 84866178747     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: 15677257     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2012.07.024     Document Type: Article

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