Skin sloughing rate increases with chytrid fungus infection load in a susceptible amphibian

Functional Ecology

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 674-682

  Ohmer, Michel E B ^a   Cramp, Rebecca L ^a   White, Craig R ^a   Franklin, Craig E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Amphibian disease; Chytridiomycosis; Fungal pathogen; Infection load; Physiological homoeostasis; Skin sloughing; Susceptibility

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FROG; FUNGAL DISEASE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SKIN;

AUSTRALIA;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; FUNGI; HYLIDAE; LITORIA CAERULEA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84929377304     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12370     Document Type: Article

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