Assessing host extinction risk following exposure to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 281, Issue 1785, 2014, Pages

  Louca, Stilianos ^a   Lampo, Margarita ^b   Doebeli, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTO VENEZOLANO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS   (Venezuela)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction quotient; Chytridiomycosis; Epizootic; Extinction; Invasion

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; EXTINCTION RISK; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGEN; REPRODUCTIVE PRODUCTIVITY; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; BEE; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IMMUNOLOGY; INNATE IMMUNITY; LARVA; LONGEVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON;

ANIMALS; BEES; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNITY, INNATE; IMMUNOLOGY; LARVA; LONGEVITY; MICROBIOLOGY; PAENIBACILLUS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASONS;

EID: 84902683058     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2783     Document Type: Article

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