Absence of infection with the amphibian chytrid fungus in the terrestrial Alpine salamander, Salamandra atra

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1) Trier University, Biogeography Department, 54286 Trier, Germany 2) Department of Biology, Copenhagen University, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark 3) Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria 4) KARCH, Passage Maximilien-de-Meuron 6, 2000 Neuchâtel, Switzerland 5) Herpetology Department, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany 6) Department for Molecular Biodiversity, Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany 7) Institut fur Evolutionsbiologie und Umweltwissenschaften, Universitat Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland