A Non-Invasive Stress Assay Shows That Tadpole Populations Infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Have Elevated Corticosterone Levels

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Gabor, Caitlin R ^a   Fisher, Matthew C ^b   Bosch, Jaime ^c  

^a Texas State University   (United States)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRESS; TADPOLE;

ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; CORTICOSTERONE; LARVA; MYCOSES; WATER;

EID: 84873902793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056054     Document Type: Article

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