Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans is the predominant chytrid fungus in Vietnamese salamanders

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Laking, Alexandra E ^a   Ngo, Hai Ngoc ^b   Pasmans, Frank ^a   Martel, An ^a   Nguyen, Tao Thien ^b  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b GRADUATE UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; POND; RIVER; TEMPERATURE; TRANSMISSION; URODELA; VETERINARY MEDICINE; VIET NAM;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CHYTRIDIOMYCOTA; DNA, FUNGAL; MYCOSES; PONDS; RIVERS; TEMPERATURE; URODELA; VIETNAM;

EID: 85015296488     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep44443     Document Type: Article

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