Investigating differences across host species and scales to explain the distribution of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Peterson, Anna C ^a,b   McKenzie, Valerie J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLOPATRY; AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; BULLFROG; CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; LABORATORY INFECTION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NATIVE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES; WETLAND; ZOOSPORE; ANIMAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY;

AMPHIBIA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COLORADO; MYCOSES; RANA CATESBEIANA;

EID: 84907260818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0107441     Document Type: Article

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