Development and Infectious Disease in Hosts with Complex Life Cycles

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Searle, Catherine L ^a,b   Xie, Gisselle Yang ^b   Blaustein, Andrew R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; LARVAL STAGE; LIFE CYCLE STAGE; METAMORPHOSIS; NONHUMAN; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RANA CASCADAE; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES HABITAT;

ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; HUMANS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; RANIDAE;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RANA CASCADAE;

EID: 84875678757     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060920     Document Type: Article

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