Kerry M Kriger

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Publications

  1. ncbi Techniques for detecting chytridiomycosis in wild frogs: comparing histology with real-time Taqman PCR
    Kerry M Kriger
    Griffith University, School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, Queensland, Australia
    Dis Aquat Organ 71:141-8. 2006
  2. ncbi Cost efficiency in the detection of chytridiomycosis using PCR assay
    Kerry M Kriger
    Griffith University, Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Queensland, Australia
    Dis Aquat Organ 71:149-54. 2006
  3. ncbi On the biological relevance of a single Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis zoospore: a reply to Smith
    Kerry M Kriger
    Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
    Dis Aquat Organ 73:257-60. 2007
  4. ncbi Lack of evidence for the drought-linked chytridiomycosis hypothesis
    Kerry M Kriger
    School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
    J Wildl Dis 45:537-41. 2009
  5. ncbi Chytridiomycosis, amphibian extinctions, and lessons for the prevention of future panzootics
    Kerry M Kriger
    Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
    Ecohealth 6:6-10. 2009
  6. ncbi Latitudinal variation in the prevalence and intensity of chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) infection in eastern Australia
    Kerry M Kriger
    Griffith University, Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, QLD 9726, Australia
    Conserv Biol 21:1280-90. 2007

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Publications6

  1. ncbi Techniques for detecting chytridiomycosis in wild frogs: comparing histology with real-time Taqman PCR
    Kerry M Kriger
    Griffith University, School of Environmental and Applied Sciences, Queensland, Australia
    Dis Aquat Organ 71:141-8. 2006
    ..Further, we document a significant negative relationship between a juvenile frog's snout-vent length and its likelihood of being infected with the disease...
  2. ncbi Cost efficiency in the detection of chytridiomycosis using PCR assay
    Kerry M Kriger
    Griffith University, Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Queensland, Australia
    Dis Aquat Organ 71:149-54. 2006
    ..We recommend that amphibian disease researchers adopt the singlicate qPCR assay as the primary means of chytridiomycosis detection...
  3. ncbi On the biological relevance of a single Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis zoospore: a reply to Smith
    Kerry M Kriger
    Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia
    Dis Aquat Organ 73:257-60. 2007
  4. ncbi Lack of evidence for the drought-linked chytridiomycosis hypothesis
    Kerry M Kriger
    School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
    J Wildl Dis 45:537-41. 2009
    ..dendrobatidis physiology, biogeography, and host-parasite ecology and conclude that abnormally dry weather should actually favor amphibians by decreasing the prevalence, severity, and spread of chytridiomycosis...
  5. ncbi Chytridiomycosis, amphibian extinctions, and lessons for the prevention of future panzootics
    Kerry M Kriger
    Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
    Ecohealth 6:6-10. 2009
    ..Legislation to prevent the emergence of new diseases is urgently required to protect global amphibian biodiversity...
  6. ncbi Latitudinal variation in the prevalence and intensity of chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) infection in eastern Australia
    Kerry M Kriger
    Griffith University, Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, QLD 9726, Australia
    Conserv Biol 21:1280-90. 2007
    ..Our results will directly assist amphibian disease researchers and wildlife managers, whose conservation efforts should focus on those amphibian populations living within the B. dendrobatidis climatic envelope that we have described...