Prevalence and pathogen load estimates for the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis are impacted by ITS DNA copy number variation.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Diseases of Aquatic Organisms

• Publication date

  2017-03-21

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.3354/dao03097PMID 28322208
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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