Host invasion by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: Fungal and epidermal ultrastructure in model anurans

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 201-210

  Greenspan, Sasha E ^a   Longcore, Joyce E ^a   Calhoun, Aram J K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Chytridiomycosis; Lithobates catesbeianus; Lithobates sylvaticus; Morphology; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

COLONIZATION; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GERMINATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARVA; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY RISK; PATHOGENICITY; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANURA; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; EPIDERMIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; EPIDERMIS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

AMPHIBIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; LITHOBATES; RANA CATESBEIANA; RANA SYLVATICA;

EID: 84866536342     PISSN: 01775103     EISSN: 16161580     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/dao02483     Document Type: Article

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