ITS1 Copy Number Varies among Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Strains: Implications for qPCR Estimates of Infection Intensity from Field-Collected Amphibian Skin Swabs

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Longo, Ana V ^a   Rodriguez, David ^a   da Silva Leite, Domingos ^b   Toledo, Luís Felipe ^b   Mendoza Almeralla, Cinthya ^c   Burrowes, Patricia A ^d   Zamudio, Kelly R ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1;

AMPHIBIA; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; DNA EXTRACTION; FUNGAL STRAIN; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NONHUMAN; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SKIN INFECTION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ZOOSPORE;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME SIZE; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HAPLOTYPES; MYCOSES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SKIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84875284656     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0059499     Document Type: Article

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