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Collapse of Amphibian Communities Due to an Introduced Ranavirus [PDF]

Current Biology, 2014
The emergence of infectious diseases with a broad host range can have a dramatic impact on entire communities and has become one of the main threats to biodiversity. Here, we report the simultaneous exploitation of entire communities of potential hosts with associated severe declines following invasion by a novel viral pathogen.
Price, SJ, Garner, TWJ, Nichols, RA, Balloux, F, Ayres, C, Mora-Cabello de Alba, A, Bosch, J   +6 more
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Transmission of Ranavirus between Ectothermic Vertebrate Hosts

PLoS ONE, 2014
Transmission is an essential process that contributes to the survival of pathogens. Ranaviruses are known to infect different classes of lower vertebrates including amphibians, fishes and reptiles. Differences in the likelihood of infection among ectothermic vertebrate hosts could explain the successful yearlong persistence of ranaviruses in aquatic ...
Roberto Brenes, Matthew J Gray, Thomas B Waltzek, Rebecca P Wilkes, Debra L Miller   +4 more
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Ranavirus

Trends in Microbiology
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Kieran A. Bates, Gonçalo M. Rosa, Trenton W.J. Garner   +2 more
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Ranavirus infections associated with skin lesions in lizards [PDF]

Veterinary Research, 2013
Abstract Ranaviral disease in amphibians has been studied intensely during the last decade, as associated mass-mortality events are considered to be a global threat to wild animal populations. Several studies have also included other susceptible ectothermic vertebrates (fish and reptiles), but only very few cases of ranavirus infections in ...
Stöhr, Anke C, Blahak, Silvia, Heckers, Kim O, Wiechert, Jutta, Behncke, Helge, Mathes, Karina, Günther, Pascale, Zwart, Peer, Ball, Inna, Rüschoff, Birgit, Marschang, Rachel E   +10 more
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Complete genome sequence of the European sheatfish virus [PDF]

, 2012
Viral diseases are an increasing threat to the thriving aquaculture industry worldwide. An emerging group of fish pathogens is formed by several ranaviruses, which have been isolated at different locations from freshwater and seawater fish species since ...
Alcamí, Antonio, Alejo, Alí, López-Bueno, Alberto, Mavian, Carla Nartuhi, Somalo, María Pilar Fernández   +4 more
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Ranavirus Host Immunity and Immune Evasion [PDF]

, 2015
Ranaviruses (RV, Iridoviridae) are now known to infect fish, amphibians, and reptiles, raising considerable ecological and commercial concerns due to the escalating infection prevalence and the resulting die-offs of wild and aquacultural species. Notably, ranaviruses exhibit uncanny capacities to cross host species barriers of their poikilothermic ...
Leon Grayfer, Eva-Stina Edholm, Francisco De Jesús Andino, V. Gregory Chinchar, Jacques Robert   +4 more
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Transmission dynamics of the amphibian ranavirus Ambystoma tigrinum virus [PDF]

Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, 2007
Transmission is central to pathogen fitness and strongly influences the impact of pathogens on host populations. Particularly important to transmission dynamics is the distinction between direct transmission requiring close physical contact (e.g. bumping, fighting, or coughing) and indirect transmission from environmental sources such as contaminated ...
BRUNNER, J. L, SCHOCK, D. M, COLLINS, J. P   +2 more
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Glutathione Impacts Both Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Virulence and Amphibian Cellular Defense in a Chytridiomycosis Model

MicrobiologyOpen, Volume 15, Issue 2, April 2026.
Glutathione shapes interactions between Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and amphibian hosts. In Bd, glutathione reductase is essential for survival, and exogenous glutathione enhances zoospore release. In host cells, Bd infection depletes glutathione and increases oxidative stress.
Rebecca J. Webb, Alexandra A. Roberts, Lee Berger, Jacques Robert, Lee F. Skerratt   +4 more
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MONITORING RANAVIRUS-ASSOCIATED MORTALITY IN A DUTCH HEATHLAND IN THE AFTERMATH OF A RANAVIRUS DISEASE OUTBREAK

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, 2016
The ranaviruses are an emerging group of viruses that infect amphibians, fish, and reptiles. Although ranaviruses have not been linked to extinctions, emergence in amphibian communities has resulted in population declines for some species. We present the results of ranavirus-associated mortality in a Dutch national park in the aftermath of an outbreak ...
Sluijs, Annemarieke Spitzen-van der, van den Broek, Jan, Kik, Marja, Martel, An, Janse, Jöran, van Asten, Fons, Pasmans, Frank, Gröne, Andrea, Rijks, Jolianne M   +8 more
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Weathering the Storm: Legacies of Extreme Meteorological Events and Daily Weather Variability Shape the Skin Microbiota of the Endangered Golden Alpine Salamander Salamandra atra aurorae (Trevisan, 1982)

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 3, March 2026.
In 2018 the Vaia windstorm caused severe damage to much of the woodland habitat of the golden Alpine salamander (Salamandra atra aurorae), an endangered subspecies endemic to the Venetian Prealps, the consequences of which are still being understood. We profiled the bacterial and fungal skin microbiota of 56 golden Alpine salamanders from forest plots ...
Emily L. Pascoe, Federico Polli, Matteo Girardi, Michele Dalponte, Matteo Marcantonio, Antonio Romano, Luca Roner, Giulio Galla, Lucia Zanovello, Paolo Pedrini, Heidi C. Hauffe   +10 more
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