• DOI:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04384.x
Corpus ID: 25496624

Amphibian chytridiomycosis in Japan: distribution, haplotypes and possible route of entry into Japan

@article{Goka2009AmphibianCI,
  title={Amphibian chytridiomycosis in Japan: distribution, haplotypes and possible route of entry into Japan},
  author={K. Goka and J. Yokoyama and Y. Une and T. Kuroki and Kazutaka Suzuki and Miri Nakahara and A. Kobayashi and Shigeki Inaba and T. Mizutani and A. Hyatt},
  journal={Molecular Ecology},
  year={2009},
  volume={18}
}

K. Goka, J. Yokoyama, +7 authors A. Hyatt

Published 2009

Biology, Medicine

Molecular Ecology

A serious disease of amphibians caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis was first found in Japan in December 2006 in imported pet frogs. This was the first report of chytridiomycosis in Asia. To assess the risk of pandemic chytridiomycosis to Japanese frogs, we surveyed the distribution of the fungus among captive and wild frog populations. We established a nested PCR assay that uses two pairs of PCR primers to amplify the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region of a… CONTINUE READING

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