Ranaviruses are capable of infecting amphibians from at least 14 families and over 70
individual species. Ranaviruses infect multiple cell types, often culminating in organ …

A great diversity of parasites, from viruses and bacteria to a range of remarkable eukaryotic
organisms, exploit reptile and amphibian hosts. Recent increases in the emergence of …

Distribution and host range of ranaviruses Page 19 9© The Author (s) 2015 MJ Gray, VG
Chinchar (eds.), Ranaviruses, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13755-1_2 Distribution and Host Range …

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 [1–4]. Here …

Page 1 Amphibians and reptiles TREVOR BEEBEE # PELAGIC Naturalists' Handbooks 31
PUBLISHING Ecology and identification Page 2 Naturalists’ Handbooks 31 Amphibians and …

In this paper it is argued, using examples of disease emergence in aquatic animals in
Europe, that the introduction of non-native species drives disease emergence by both …

Outbreaks of infectious diseases in honey bees, fish, amphibians, bats and birds in the past
two decades have coincided with the increasing use of systemic insecticides, notably the …

Ranaviruses were thought to have little impact on populations of fish and amphibians for
decades after their serendipitous discovery in primary kidney cell cultures of northern …

Variation among animals in their host-associated microbial communities is increasingly
recognized as a key determinant of important life history traits including growth, metabolism …

Transmission is an essential process that contributes to the survival of pathogens.
Ranaviruses are known to infect different classes of lower vertebrates including amphibians …