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Tetrodotoxin, fungal pathogen infection, and bacterial microbiome associations are variable in the skin microecosystems of two Taricha newt species

Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science
A 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, Talon Jost, Alysha Henderson, Brandon LaBumbard, Krisztian Magori, Amber Stokes, Danica Bergin, Autumn Holley, Autumn Holley, Molly Bletz, Molly Bletz, Obed Hernández-Gómez, Gary Bucciarelli, Douglas C. Woodhams, Jonah Piovia-Scott, Jenifer B. Walke   +15 more
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Salamander–Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Interactions Through Dual Transcriptomics

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 7, July 2026.
Using dual transcriptomics, this study reveals how salamanders defend against an emerging pathogen and how the pathogen infects multiple hosts, uncovering a novel calmodulin‐mediated virulence pathway. These mechanistic insights connect molecular responses to host susceptibility, advancing our understanding of the potential impacts of disease on ...
María Torres‐Sánchez
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First record of the chytrid fungus in Lithobates catesbeianus from Argentina: exotic species and conservation

Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2011
Chytridiomycosis, a disease caused by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (B.d.), is recognized as one of the major factors of amphibian decline. Global trade of amphibians has been identified as one of the causes of B.d.
Romina Ghirardi, Javier Alejandro López, Pablo Augusto Scarabotti, Mónica Mirta Steciow, María Gabriela Perotti   +4 more
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Genome-wide transcriptional response of Silurana (Xenopus) tropicalis to infection with the deadly chytrid fungus. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
Emerging infectious diseases are of great concern for both wildlife and humans. Several highly virulent fungal pathogens have recently been discovered in natural populations, highlighting the need for a better understanding of fungal-vertebrate host ...
Erica Bree Rosenblum, Thomas J Poorten, Matthew Settles, Gordon K Murdoch, Jacques Robert, Nicole Maddox, Michael B Eisen   +6 more
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Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Threat to the Iberian Urodele Hotspot

Journal of Fungi, 2021
The recent introduction of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans into northeastern Spain threatens salamander diversity on the Iberian Peninsula.
Jaime Bosch, An Martel, Jarrod Sopniewski, Barbora Thumsová, Cesar Ayres, Ben C. Scheele, Guillermo Velo-Antón, Frank Pasmans   +7 more
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The growth of microbial ecology research in a selection of the Ecological Society of America's portfolio of journals

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Early in the inception of ecology as a field of science, microorganisms have been known to play a role in ecosystems. The growth of the portfolio of journals from the Ecological Society of America (ESA) correlates to an increase in the studies of microbial ecology through time.
Sunshine Van Bael
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Fatal Chytridiomycosis in the Tyrrhenian Painted Frog

EcoHealth, 2009
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), the causative agent of the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis, is an important factor in the global decline of amphibians. Within Europe, animals that exhibit clinical signs of the disease have only been reported in Spain despite the pathogen's wide, but patchy, distribution on the continent.
Jon, Bielby, Stefano, Bovero, Giuseppe, Sotgiu, Giulia, Tessa, Marco, Favelli, Claudio, Angelini, Stefano, Doglio, Frances C, Clare, Enrico, Gazzaniga, Federica, Lapietra, Trenton W J, Garner   +10 more
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Microbial metacommunity ecology: Using null models and networks to understand assembly in a salamander disease system

Ecosphere, Volume 17, Issue 7, July 2026.
Abstract Animals host diverse microbiomes crucial for their health, which subsequently influence their function in ecosystems. Metacommunity theory offers a useful framework to understand the processes driving host‐associated microbiome assembly across scales, linking regional environmental processes to local host–microbial processes.
Randall R. Jiménez, Piper Thacher, Owen G. Osborne, Brian Gratwicke, Carly R. Muletz‐Wolz   +4 more
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Recent Findings of Potentially Lethal Salamander Fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2019
The distribution of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans continues to expand in Europe. During 2014–2018, we collected 1,135 samples from salamanders and newts in 6 countries in Europe. We identified 5 cases of B.
David Lastra González, Vojtech Baláž, Milič Solský, Barbora Thumsová, Krzysztof Kolenda, Anna Najbar, Bartłomiej Najbar, Matej Kautman, Petr Chajma, Monika Balogová, Jiří Vojar   +10 more
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Environmental detection of the amphibian chytrid fungus in water bodies is associated with host infection along a deforestation gradient

Journal of Applied Ecology, Volume 63, Issue 7, July 2026.
Linking environmental pathogen detection with host infection patterns can improve surveillance of diseases involving environmental transmission, particularly where direct host sampling is logistically challenging. This approach enables the identification of areas of elevated transmission risk and supports targeted monitoring and management under ...
Ananda Brito de Assis, David Rodriguez, Wesley J. Neely, Carla Martins Lopes, Paula R. Prist, Carlos Arturo Navas, Renato A. Martins, Shannon Buttimer, Célio Fernando Baptista Haddad, C. Guilherme Becker   +9 more
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