Essay
The Effect of Pesticide Interactions Malathion and Glyphosate with an Emerging Viral Disease in Tiger Salamanders
UNKNOWN
10/2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/1105
Abstract
In this study, we examine the effects of both a viral disease and two commonly used pesticides. The insecticide malathion and the popular herbicide glyphosate were crossed in a factorial design with Ambystoma tigrinum virus (ATV) and the synergistic affects on tiger salamanders were investigated. The response variables examined include mass, snout vent length (SVL), infection level, and mortality. This is the first study of its kind to examine the interactions of an insecticide and an herbicide with disease. With a continual increase in the use of pesticides around the world (oftentimes applied very close to riparian communities), and because emerging diseases are resulting in devastating effects on amphibian populations, studies ofthis nature could provide vital insight on epizootics by uncovering factors that contribute to disease emergence.
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- Title
- The Effect of Pesticide Interactions Malathion and Glyphosate with an Emerging Viral Disease in Tiger Salamanders
- Creators
- Cristina Dressel (Author)
- Contributors
- ANDREW STORFER (Supervisor) - Washington State University, Biological Sciences, School ofJacob L Kerby (Supervisor)
- Academic Unit
- Undergraduate Student Research Excellence Award
- Series
- UNKNOWN
- Identifiers
- 99900502149101842
- Copyright
- openAccess ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Essay