Context-dependent effects of ranaviral infection on northern leopard frog life history traits.

ABSTRACT: Pathogens have important effects on host life-history traits, but the magnitude of these effects is often strongly context-dependent. The outcome of an interaction between a host and an infectious agent is often associated with the level of stress experienced by the host. Ranavirus causes disease and mortality in amphibian populations in various locations around the world, but most known cases of ranaviral infection have occurred in North America and the United Kingdom. While Ranavirus virulence has been investigated, the outcome of Ranavirus infection has seldom been related to the host environment. In a factorial experiment, we exposed Northern leopard frog (Lithobates pipiens, formerly Rana pipiens) tadpoles to different concentrations of Ranavirus and investigated the effect of host de

SUBMITTER: Echaubard P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2965661 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature