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. 2012 Jul 20;7(7):e41481. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041481

Figure 4. TEM overview of the development of Bd in skin explants of Alytes muletesis and Litoria caerulea.

Figure 4

(A) infected epidermis of A. mulentensis at 1 dpi, with loss of the host cell cytoplasma and the presence of germ tube fragments inside the infected cell in cross and longitudinal section (arrow); scale bar = 2 µm; (B) infected epidermis of L. caerulea at 2 dpi showing colonization of the stratum corneum, loss of the host cell cytoplasm and the presence of germ tube fragments (arrow); intracellular chytrid sporangia are observed in the stratum spinosum; scale bar = 2 µm; GT; germ tube, SC: stratum corneum, SP: sporangium, SS: stratum corneum, ZS: encysted zoospore.