During the ongoing biodiversity crisis, captive conservation and breeding programs offer a
refuge for species to persist and provide source populations for reintroduction efforts …

Covering: through 2014 Many organisms team up with microbes for defense against
predators, parasites, parasitoids, or pathogens. Here we review the described protective …

The skin constitutes the primary physical barrier between vertebrates and their external
environment. Characterization of skin microorganisms is essential for understanding how a …

Amphibian declines and extinctions are emblematic for the current sixth mass extinction
event. Infectious drivers of these declines include the recently emerged fungal pathogens …

The mucosal surfaces of wild and farmed aquatic vertebrates face the threat of many aquatic
pathogens, including fungi. These surfaces are colonized by diverse symbiotic bacterial …

Probiotic therapy through bioaugmentation is a feasible disease mitigation strategy based
on growing evidence that microbes contribute to host defences of plants and animals …

Host-microbe symbioses rely on the successful transmission or acquisition of symbionts in
each new generation. Amphibians host a diverse cutaneous microbiota, and many of these …

Although all plant and animal species harbor microbial symbionts, we know surprisingly little
about the specificity of microbial communities to their hosts. Few studies have compared the …

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 …

Here we review the knowledge about skin microbiomes in amphibians accumulated over the
last two decades and the evidence regarding the protective role of skin bacteria. Amphibians …