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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis electroporation v1 [PDF]
, 2019 Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (BD) is a parasitic symbiote with many frogs. BD infection is devastating to most frog species, causing mass mortality in ~6.5% of amphibian species. To understand the cellular biology of BD and its interaction with amphibians, we have developed an method of electroporation, allowing for efficient deliver of extracellular
Andrew J. M. Swafford +2 more
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Effects of Timing of Microbial Exposure on Microbiome Assembly and Amphibian Immune Development
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.We used a novel amphibian gnotobiotic system to investigate how disruptions to the microbiome during critical developmental periods influence microbial assembly and the development of immunity. We found that antimicrobial treatments of embryos and subsequent introduction to microbes at different developmental stages altered microbiome assembly ...
Abigail J. Miller +5 more
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Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile ScienceA diverse metabolome exists on amphibian skin that mediates interactions between hosts and skin microbiomes. Tetrodotoxin is one such metabolite that occurs across a variety of taxa, and is particularly well studied in newts of the genus Taricha that are
Talon Jost +15 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 8, August 2026.This study examined how host genetics and larval food plant environment influence parasite infection outcomes in monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) infected with the protozoan Ophryocystis elektroscirrha. We tested for genotype × environment interactions on infection status, infection burden, lifespan, and wing size.
Ania A. Majewska +2 more
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Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile ScienceSome of the amphibian populations in Panama are demonstrating slow recovery decades after severe declines caused by the invasion of the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd).
Douglas C. Woodhams +13 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.We investigated how seasonal shifts in precipitation and prey availability affect the distribution of arboreal pit vipers (Trimeresurus spp.) in northern Thailand. Trimeresurus were confined to streamside habitats during the dry season but expanded into hillsides during the wet season, mirroring amphibian movements.
Alexander H. Murray +5 more
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Amphibian collapses increased malaria incidence in Central America
Environmental Research Letters, 2022 Biodiversity in ecosystems plays an important role in supporting human welfare, including regulating the transmission of infectious diseases. Many of these services are not fully-appreciated due to complex environmental dynamics and lack of baseline data.
Michael R Springborn +4 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.We investigated individual and population‐level spatial ecology in the forest specialist Salamandrina perspicillata, assessing spatial displacements, movement rates, home ranges and population density across sexes and seasons. Our results unravel a movement system characterised by many highly sedentary individuals and few relatively mobile ones (many ...
Antonio Romano +4 more
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Monitoring Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Italy.
, 2022 Amphibian declines is a paradigmatic example in the context of the current sixth mass extinction. Drivers of these declines include the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). The skin disease caused by this fungus is named chytridiomycosis and affects the vital function of amphibian skin.
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Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2013 A fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which can cause morbidity and death of anurans, has affected amphibian populations on a worldwide basis.
CA. Vieira +3 more
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