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Dorsal Skin Microbial Assemblages in Free-ranging Hellbenders, Cryptobranchus Alleganiensis, Associated With Subspecies and Chronic Toe Lesions, but Not With Chytrid Fungal Infection.
2021-08-30
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<title>Abstract</title> <p>BackgroundSkin microbiomes are important components of skin health and have been shown to contribute to immunity in amphibians, especially against the chytrid fungus, <italic>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</italic> (<italic>Bd</italic>). Hellbenders (<italic>Cryptobranchus alleganiensis</italic>) are large aquatic amphibians (Order Caudata) native to the eastern United States that have...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 86c498de-43b6-5e6a-a194-8adcfaa9a9b0
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-827234/v1
