West Africa - A Safe Haven for Frogs? A Sub-Continental Assessment of the Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Penner, Johannes ^a   Adum, Gilbert B ^b   McElroy, Matthew T ^c   Doherty Bone, Thomas ^d,e   Hirschfeld, Mareike ^a   Sandberger, Laura ^a   Weldon, Ché ^f   Cunningham, Andrew A ^e   Ohst, Torsten ^a,g   Wombwell, Emma ^e   Portik, Daniel M ^g,h   Reid, Duncan ^c   Hillers, Annika ⁱ   Ofori Boateng, Caleb ^b,j   Oduro, William ^b   Plötner, Jörg ^a   Ohler, Annemarie ^k   Leaché, Adam D ^c   Rödel, Mark Oliver ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTION AND BIODIVERSITY SCIENCE   (Germany)

^b KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^f NORTH WEST UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^g CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^j FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF GHANA   (Ghana)

^k MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANURA; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BENIN; BURKINA FASO; COTE D'IVOIRE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GHANA; GRASSLAND; GUINEA; GYMNOPHIONA; LIBERIA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RAIN FOREST; SAVANNA; SIERRA LEONE; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES HABITAT;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DERMATOMYCOSES; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84873926887     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056236     Document Type: Article

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