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Host Specificity and Activity Synchronization Drive Frog‐Biting Midge Incidence on Torrent Frogs (Hylodidae)

open access: yesBiotropica, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
Frog‐biting midges were recorded exclusively on Hylodes asper (especially on males calling near streams and only during the day) and not on syntopic H. phyllodes, indicating host preference and activity synchronization. Micropredation on these visual‐signaling frogs is likely influenced by precipitation, especially under high maximum temperatures ...
Filipe C. Serrano   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ranavirus Host Immunity and Immune Evasion [PDF]

open access: yes, 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   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Glutathione Impacts Both Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Virulence and Amphibian Cellular Defense in a Chytridiomycosis Model

open access: yesMicrobiologyOpen, 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

First evidence of amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) and ranavirus in Hong Kong amphibian trade.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2014
The emerging infectious amphibian diseases caused by amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Bd) and ranaviruses are responsible for global amphibian population declines and extinctions.
Jonathan E Kolby   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Replication and transcription machinery for ranaviruses: components, correlation, and functional architecture

open access: yesCell & Bioscience, 2022
Background Ranaviruses (family Iridoviridae) are promiscuous pathogens that can infect across species barriers in poikilotherms and can replicate in amphibian and fish cells and even in cultured mammalian cells.
Fei Ke   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phage Cocktail Designed for Wastewater Bioremediation Has Limited Effect on Crustacean Filtrator Microbiome Diversity and Health

open access: yesEnvironmental Microbiology Reports, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026.
Phage cocktail designed for wastewater bioremediation is safe for freshwater filtrators. D. magna cultured with phages showed no significant changes in life‐history parameters and minor shifts in the microbial composition with increase in alpha diversity.
Marta Grabska   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking ranavirus infections: an integrative review of epidemiological research on pathogen dynamics in anurans [PDF]

open access: yesWeb Ecology
Emerging infectious diseases have contributed to the decline in amphibian species around the world. Among them, ranavirus infections have major importance, as they significantly impact biodiversity and frog rearing.
D. D. S. Rodrigues   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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)

open access: yesEcology 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   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of a ranavirus inhibitor of the antiviral protein kinase PKR [PDF]

open access: yesBMC Microbiology, 2011
Ranaviruses (family Iridoviridae) are important pathogens of lower vertebrates. However, little is known about how they circumvent the immune response of their hosts. Many ranaviruses contain a predicted protein, designated vIF2α, which shows homology with the eukaryotic translation initiation factor 2α.
Rothenburg, Stefan   +2 more
openaire   +5 more sources

Development of eNA Sampling for Early Detection of Pathogens in On‐Farm Water Sources

open access: yesEnvironmental DNA, Volume 8, Issue 2, March/April 2026.
We compare four water‐sampling methods for detecting microbial and viral eNA in livestock troughs and show all approaches effectively recover community profiles, supporting flexible, field‐ready surveillance of livestock pathogens. ABSTRACT Early detection of livestock pathogens is critical for mitigating risk and implementing timely control or ...
Maxine P. Piggott, Allyson Malpartida
wiley   +1 more source

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