Cool temperatures reduce antifungal activity of symbiotic bacteria of threatened amphibians - Implications for disease management and patterns of decline

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Daskin, Joshua H ^a,b   Bell, Sara C ^a   Schwarzkopf, Lin ^a   Alford, Ross A ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; CELL FREE SYSTEM; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; COLD; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; IN VITRO STUDY; LITORIA; LITORIA NANNOTIS; LITORIA RHEOCOLA; LITORIA SERRATA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DISPERSAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SYMBIONT; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; ANTIBIOSIS; ANURA; AUSTRALIA; BACILLUS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; DRUG EFFECTS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSES; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SECRETION (PROCESS); SKIN; SYMBIOSIS; VETERINARY;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDE;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; ANTIBIOSIS; ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; ANURA; AUSTRALIA; BACILLUS; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COLD TEMPERATURE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLAVOBACTERIACEAE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; MYCOSES; SKIN; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84903289498     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0100378     Document Type: Article

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