Natural history collections as windows on evolutionary processes

MW Holmes, TT Hammond, GOU Wogan… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Natural history collections provide an immense record of biodiversity on Earth. These
repositories have traditionally been used to address fundamental questions in …

Amphibian chytridiomycosis: a review with focus on fungus-host interactions

P Van Rooij, A Martel, F Haesebrouck, F Pasmans - Veterinary research, 2015 - Springer
Amphibian declines and extinctions are emblematic for the current sixth mass extinction
event. Infectious drivers of these declines include the recently emerged fungal pathogens …

Disentangling host, pathogen, and environmental determinants of a recently emerged wildlife disease: lessons from the first 15 years of amphibian chytridiomycosis …

TY James, LF Toledo, D Rödder… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The amphibian fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which affects species across all continents,
recently emerged as one of the greatest threats to biodiversity. Yet, many aspects of the …

Early-life disruption of amphibian microbiota decreases later-life resistance to parasites

SA Knutie, CL Wilkinson, KD Kohl, JR Rohr - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Changes in the early-life microbiota of hosts might affect infectious disease risk
throughout life, if such disruptions during formative times alter immune system development …

State of the world's amphibians

A Catenazzi - Annual review of environment and resources, 2015 - annualreviews.org
The Anthropocene is characterized by a widespread biodiversity crisis that is rivaling
prehistoric mass extinctions. Amphibians are the most threatened class of vertebrates. In …

Review of the amphibian immune response to chytridiomycosis, and future directions

LF Grogan, J Robert, L Berger, LF Skerratt… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The fungal skin disease, chytridiomycosis (caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and
B. salamandrivorans), has caused amphibian declines and extinctions globally since its …

History and recent progress on chytridiomycosis in amphibians

L Berger, AA Roberts, J Voyles, JE Longcore… - Fungal ecology, 2016 - Elsevier
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) emerged in the 1970s in Australia and the Americas,
causing rapid and catastrophic declines and extinctions of naïve amphibian populations as it …

Adaptive tolerance to a pathogenic fungus drives major histocompatibility complex evolution in natural amphibian populations

AE Savage, KR Zamudio - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Amphibians have been affected globally by the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the
fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), and we are just now beginning to understand …

Habitat split as a driver of disease in amphibians

CG Becker, SE Greenspan, RA Martins… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic habitat disturbance is fundamentally altering patterns of disease
transmission and immunity across the vertebrate tree of life. Most studies linking …

More than skin deep: functional genomic basis for resistance to amphibian chytridiomycosis

AR Ellison, T Tunstall, GV DiRenzo… - Genome biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
The amphibian-killing chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is one of the most
generalist pathogens known, capable of infecting hundreds of species globally and causing …