Distribution and Genetic Diversity of the Amphibian Chytrid in Japan
Journal of Fungi (Basel, Switzerland), 2021 While research on frog chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), an infectious disease that threatens amphibian diversity, continues to advance worldwide, little progress has been made in Japan since around 2010.
Atsushi Tominaga +2 more
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Chytrid fungi infecting Arctic microphytobenthic communities under varying salinity conditions [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis study aimed to investigate the presence and diversity of fungal parasites in Arctic coastal microphytobenthic communities. These communities represent a key component in the functioning of Arctic trophic food webs.
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Virulence and Pathogenicity of Chytrid Fungi Causing Amphibian Extinctions
Annual Review of Microbiology, 2021 Ancient enzootic associations between wildlife and their infections allow evolution to innovate mechanisms of pathogenicity that are counterbalanced by host responses.
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A Call for a Better Understanding of Aquatic Chytrid Biology
Frontiers in Fungal Biology, 2021 The phylum Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”) is an early-diverging, mostly unicellular, lineage of fungi that consists of significant aquatic saprotrophs, parasites, and pathogens, and is of evolutionary interest because its members retain biological ...
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Taxonomic and functional dynamics during chytrid epidemics in an aquatic ecosystem
Molecular Ecology, 2022 Fungal parasitism is common in plankton communities and plays a crucial role in the ecosystem by balancing nutrient cycling in the food web. Previous studies of aquatic ecosystems revealed that zoosporic chytrid epidemics represent an important driving ...
Sébastien Monchy
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mSphere of Influence: Fungal behavior as a framework for the evolution of emergent traits [PDF]
mSphereAndrew Swafford works in the field of evolutionary cell biology. In this mSphere of Influence article, he reflects on how the simultaneous introduction to the evolution of vision, the sensory biology of chytrid fungi, and a classic paper by Vrba and ...
Andrew J. M. Swafford
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The chytrid insurance hypothesis: integrating parasitic chytrids into a biodiversity-ecosystem functioning framework for phytoplankton-zooplankton population dynamics. [PDF]
OecologiaIn temperate lakes, eutrophication and warm temperatures can promote cyanobacteria blooms that reduce water quality and impair food-chain support. Although parasitic chytrids of phytoplankton might compete with zooplankton, they also indirectly support ...
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eLife, 2020 Chytrids are early-diverging fungi that share features with animals that have been lost in most other fungi. They hold promise as a system to study fungal and animal evolution, but we lack genetic tools for hypothesis testing.
Edgar M Medina +6 more
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Disease Refuge or Ecological Trap: Location‐Specific Performance of Amphibian Hotspot Shelters [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionMany terrestrial ectotherms (amphibians, reptiles) select warm retreat sites which may provide opportunities to escape the impacts of pathogens that cannot tolerate high temperatures.
Madeleine L. Holmes +6 more
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Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Infection Influences Calling Investment in Male Brown Toadlets [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThe sublethal effects of infection and disease on male advertisement behaviour remain poorly understood. The ‘terminal investment hypothesis’ proposes that infected organisms will increase reproductive investment when their future reproductive prospects ...
Ewan S. Auld +2 more
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