Endemic Asian Chytrid Strain Infection in Threatened and Endemic Anurans of the Northern Western Ghats, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Dahanukar, Neelesh ^a,b   Krutha, Keerthi ^c   Paingankar, Mandar S ^b   Padhye, Anand D ^d   Modak, Nikhil ^d   Molur, Sanjay ^b,c,e  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b Zoo Outreach Organization (ZOO)   (India)

^c Wildl Info and Liaison Devmt Soc   (India)

^d ABASAHEB GARWARE COLLEGE   (India)

^e Conservation Breeding Specialist Group South Asia ^*  (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RNA 5.8S;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANURA; ARTICLE; BOMBAY BUBBLE NEST FROG; BOMBAY NIGHT FROG; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; ENDEMIC SPECIES; HAPLOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INDIA; LEITH LEAPING FROG; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA GENE; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; ANURA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INDIA; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84885401063     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0077528     Document Type: Article

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