Chytrids Vs. Amphibians: Emerging Disease Or History Of Natural Selection?

ASU Author/Contributor (non-ASU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
Jorge Luis Esquivel (Creator)
Institution
Appalachian State University (ASU )
Web Site: https://library.appstate.edu/
Advisor
Robert Wayne Van Devender

Abstract: Quantity of skin peptides and effectiveness of those peptides in suppressing the growth of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis were analyzed for 134 individuals of 24 species of amphibians from the Southern Appalachian temperate zone of eastern North America and several Costa Rica sites in the tropics.

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Publication
Thesis
Esquivel, J. (2007). Chytrids Vs. Amphibians: Emerging Disease Or History Of Natural Selection? Unpublished Master’s Thesis. Appalachian State University, Boone, NC.
Language: English
Date: 2007
Keywords
salamanders, Costa Rica, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, skin secretion, skin peptides, biology, Southern Appalachian

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