Larval exposure to predator cues alters immune function and response to a fungal pathogen in post-metamorphic wood frogs

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1443-1454

  Groner, Maya L ^a   Buck, Julia C ^b   Gervasi, Stephanie ^b   Blaustein, Andrew R ^b   Reinert, Laura K ^c,d   Rollins Smith, Louise A ^c,d   Bier, Mark E ^e   Hempel, John ^f   Relyea, Rick A ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

AchE inhibitor; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Brevinin; Chytridiomycosis; Disease ecology; Emerging infectious disease; Immunosuppression; Indirect effects; Lithobates sylvaticus; Temporin

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE; MALATHION;

DRAGONFLY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FITNESS; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INHIBITOR; LARVA; MALATHION; METAMORPHOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PEPTIDE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; FUNGUS; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; METAMORPHOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RANIDAE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; FUNGI; INSECTICIDES; LARVA; MALATHION; METAMORPHOSIS, BIOLOGICAL; RANIDAE;

EID: 84884221918     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-1572.1     Document Type: Article

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