History, novelty, and emergence of an infectious amphibian disease

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 23, 2013, Pages 9193-9194

  Collins, James P ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN DISEASE; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; GENE DOSAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, FUNGAL; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY;

AMPHIBIA;

EID: 84878679758     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1305730110     Document Type: Note

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