West Africa - A Safe Haven for Frogs? A Sub-Continental Assessment of the Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)

A putative driver of global amphibian decline is the panzootic chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). While Bd has been documented across continental Africa, its distribution in West Africa remains ambiguous. We tested 793 West African amphibians (one caecilian and 61 anuran species) fo...

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Autores principales: Penner, Johannes, Adum, Gilbert B., McElroy, Matthew T., Doherty-Bone, Thomas, Hirschfeld, Mareike, Sandberger, Laura, Weldon, Ché, Cunningham, Andrew A., Ohst, Torsten, Wombwell, Emma, Portik, Daniel M., Reid, Duncan, Hillers, Annika, Ofori-Boateng, Caleb, Oduro, William, Plötner, Jörg, Ohler, Annemarie, Leaché, Adam D., Rödel, Mark-Oliver
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3572032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23426141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056236

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3572032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23426141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056236

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