Figure_4.tif (1.16 MB)
Histological view of skin from lethally infected individual.
figure
posted on 2013-02-20, 07:55 authored by Natalie M. M. Reeder, Allan P. Pessier, Vance T. VredenburgPhotomicrograph of a histologic section of the ventral abdominal skin from P. regilla #1 (the only individual that died in captive experiment). There is diffuse severe hyperkeratosis with high numbers of Bd thalli (arrows). This lesion is consistent with lethal chytridiomycosis. E = epidermis.