Overview of chytrid emergence and impacts on amphibians

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1709, 2016, Pages

  Lips, Karen R ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphibians; Biodiversity; Chytrid fungi; Disease; Populations

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; GENOTYPE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DECLINE;

AMPHIBIA; FUNGI;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMAL; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; VETERINARY;

AMPHIBIANS; ANIMALS; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; MYCOSES;

EID: 84992453400     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0465     Document Type: Review

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