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Amphibian-killing fungus loses genetic diversity as it spreads across the New World
2012-02-01
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Emergent infectious diseases are a severe threat to global biodiversity, thus conservation biologists need to understand the emergence, spread, and evolution of pathogens to identify factors driving disease outbreaks. Amphibian chytridiomycosis is a recently emerged amphibian disease caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) that has led to species extinctions and declines worldwide. The spatio-temp...
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- Literature Corpus work
- ca642456-9e5d-5a7b-9765-9a47bd064767
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.12.003