The microbiome is known to provide benefits to hosts, including extension of immune
function. Amphibians are a powerful immunological model for examining mucosal defenses …

Anthropogenic habitat disturbance is fundamentally altering patterns of disease
transmission and immunity across the vertebrate tree of life. Most studies linking …

Anthropogenic climate warming affects many biological systems, ranging in scale from
microbiomes to biomes. In many animals, warming-related fitness depression appears more …

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

Highlights•The fungal mycobiome on the skin is shaped by skin physiology and
age.•Disruption of fungal–bacterial network is associated with dermatological …

This review summarizes the role of environmental factors on amphibian microbiotas at the
organismal, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. At the organismal …

Abstract In Brazil's Atlantic Forest (AF) biodiversity conservation is of key importance since
the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has led to the rapid loss of …

Microbial diversity positively influences community resilience of the host microbiome.
However, extinction risk factors such as habitat specialization, narrow environmental …

Anthropogenic habitat disturbances can dramatically alter ecological community
interactions, including host–pathogen dynamics. Recent work has highlighted the potential …

Latitudinal gradients are linked to the dynamics of infectious diseases. Both prevalence and
infection intensity of the amphibian-killing fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), vary …