Host Identity Matters in the Amphibian-Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis System: Fine-Scale Patterns of Variation in Responses to a Multi-Host Pathogen

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Gervasi, Stephanie ^a   Gondhalekar, Carmen ^a   Olson, Deanna H ^b   Blaustein, Andrew R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST RESEARCH STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANAXYRUS BOREAS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; INOCULATION; LARVAL STAGE; LIFE HISTORY; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGEN LOAD; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RANA CASCADAE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SURVIVAL;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; SYMBIOSIS;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BOREAS; BUFO BOREAS; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RANA CASCADAE;

EID: 84872857732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054490     Document Type: Article

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