Temporal patterns in immunity, infection load and disease susceptibility: Understanding the drivers of host responses in the amphibian-chytrid fungus system

Functional Ecology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 569-578

  Gervasi, Stephanie S ^a   Hunt, Emily G ^a   Lowry, Malcolm ^a   Blaustein, Andrew R ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Immunocompetence; Multi host; Resistance; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE RESISTANCE; DISEASE SPREAD; EMERGENCE; FROG; FUNGUS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; INOCULATION; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; HYLIDAE; PSEUDACRIS; PSEUDACRIS REGILLA; RANA CASCADAE;

EID: 84900552350     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12194     Document Type: Article

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