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Amphibian-killing chytrid in Brazil comprises both locally endemic and globally expanding populations.
Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2016
Jenkinson T S, Betancourt Román C M, Lambertini C, Valencia-Aguilar A, Rodriguez D, Nunes-de-Almeida C H L, Ruggeri J, Belasen A M, da Silva Leite D, Zamudio K R, Longcore J E, Toledo F L, James T Y
Abstract excerpt
Chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), is the emerging infectious disease implicated in recent population declines and extinctions of amphibian species worldwide. Bd strains from regions of disease-associated amphibian decline to date have all belonged to a single, hypervirulent clonal genotype (Bd-GPL). However, earlier studies in the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil...
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