Current ecological understanding of fungal-like pathogens of fish: What lies beneath?

Frontiers in Microbiology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Gozlan, Rodolphe E ^a,b   Marshall, Wyth L ^c   Lilje, Osu ^d   Jessop, Casey N ^d   Gleason, Frank H ^d   Andreou, Demetra ^b  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c BC Centre for Aquatic Health Sciences   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aquatic; Biodiversity; Emerging infectious disease; Extinction; Global; Mesomycetozoea; Oomycota; Vertebrate

Indexed keywords

AQUACULTURE; AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; BIODIVERSITY; CICHLID; CULTURE MEDIUM; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH DISEASE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FOOD SECURITY; FUNGAL DETECTION; FUNGAL LIFE CYCLE STAGE; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOST RANGE; ICHTHYOSPOREA; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LOOP MEDIATED ISOTHERMAL AMPLIFICATION; METAGENOMICS; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MYCOPARASITE; NONHUMAN; OOMYCETES; PATHOGENESIS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SAPROTROPH;

EID: 84897645813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00062     Document Type: Review

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