Frog skin innate immune defences: sensing and surviving pathogens

JFA Varga, MP Bui-Marinos… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Amphibian skin is a mucosal surface in direct and continuous contact with a microbially
diverse and laden aquatic and/or terrestrial environment. As such, frog skin is an important …

The amphibian microbiome: natural range of variation, pathogenic dysbiosis, and role in conservation

RR Jiménez, S Sommer - Biodiversity and conservation, 2017 - Springer
Recent research in humans, livestock, and wildlife using high-throughput next-generation
sequencing (NGS) has identified that resident microbiota play an essential role in disease …

Impacts of rising temperatures and water acidification on the oxidative status and immune system of aquatic ectothermic vertebrates: A meta-analysis

S Messina, D Costantini, M Eens - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Species persistence in the Anthropocene is dramatically threatened by global climate
change. Large emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from human activities are driving …

Do immune system changes at metamorphosis predict vulnerability to chytridiomycosis? An update

JE Humphries, CM Lanctot, J Robert… - Developmental & …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amphibians are among the vertebrate groups suffering great losses of biodiversity due to a
variety of causes including diseases, such as chytridiomycosis (caused by the fungal …

Landscape and water characteristics correlate with immune defense traits across Blanchard's cricket frog (Acris blanchardi) populations

KL Krynak, DJ Burke, MF Benard - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
Due to ease of global transportation, disease threats to amphibians are expected to
increase. Therefore it is crucial that we improve our understanding of factors which may …

Intraspecific variation in the skin-associated microbiome of a terrestrial salamander

SR Prado-Irwin, AK Bird, AG Zink, VT Vredenburg - Microbial Ecology, 2017 - Springer
Resident microbial communities living on amphibian skin can have significant effects on
host health, yet the basic ecology of the host-microbiome relationship of many amphibian …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring the link between ultraviolet B radiation and immune function in amphibians: implications for emerging infectious diseases

RL Cramp, CE Franklin - Conservation physiology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Amphibian populations the world over are under threat of extinction, with as many as 40% of
assessed species listed as threatened under IUCN Red List criteria (a significantly higher …

Temporal Variation of the Skin Bacterial Community and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection in the Terrestrial Cryptic Frog Philoria loveridgei

M Familiar López, EA Rebollar, RN Harris… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In animals and plants, symbiotic bacteria can play an important role in disease resistance of
host and are the focus of much current research. Globally, amphibian population declines …

Life history linked to immune investment in developing amphibians

DC Woodhams, SC Bell, L Bigler… - Conservation …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The broad diversity of amphibian developmental strategies has been shaped, in part, by
pathogen pressure, yet trade-offs between the rate of larval development and immune …

Skin and gut microbiomes of tadpoles vary differently with host and water environment: a short-term experiment using 16S metabarcoding

B Santos, FMS Martins, J Sabino-Pinto, F Licata… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
The host-microbiome community is influenced by several host and environmental factors. In
order to disentangle the individual effects of host and environment, we performed a …