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plethodontid susceptibility to chytridiomycosis

taherman

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Interesting study that was just published, which also has some relevance to the caudata.org grants.
-Tim
 

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Thanks for that; very interesting study. It is going to be very important to entirely understand how and why mortality/susceptibility seems to vary so much between species and higher taxa, and sometimes within species.
 

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Tim, thanks for posting. Small N's but well designed. It will be quite interesting as we continue to ferret-out the association between ambient temperature, skin peptide profiles and skin flora of caudates vis a vis their susceptiblity to Bd.....and how that differs from anurans.
 
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