Chytrid fungi and global amphibian declines

MC Fisher, TWJ Garner - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Discovering that chytrid fungi cause chytridiomycosis in amphibians represented a paradigm
shift in our understanding of how emerging infectious diseases contribute to global patterns …

Overview of chytrid emergence and impacts on amphibians

KR Lips - … Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Chytridiomycosis is an emerging infectious disease of amphibians that affects over 700
species on all continents where amphibians occur. The amphibian–chytridiomycosis system …

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

BC Scheele, F Pasmans, LF Skerratt, L Berger… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the
spread of diseases that threaten Earth's biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative …

Historical amphibian declines and extinctions in Brazil linked to chytridiomycosis

T Carvalho, CG Becker… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The recent increase in emerging fungal diseases is causing unprecedented threats to
biodiversity. The origin of spread of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis …

A retrospective overview of amphibian declines in Brazil's Atlantic Forest

LF Toledo, SP de Carvalho-E-Silva… - Biological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Amphibians are facing population declines and extinctions across the globe, and
megadiverse Brazil is no exception. One of the global hotspots of amphibian declines is …

Hybrids of amphibian chytrid show high virulence in native hosts

SE Greenspan, C Lambertini, T Carvalho, TY James… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Hybridization of parasites can generate new genotypes with high virulence. The fungal
amphibian parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) hybridizes in Brazil's Atlantic …

Climate change resha** plant-fungal interaction

A Waheed, Y Haxim, W Islam, M Ahmad… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Plant diseases pose a severe threat to modern agriculture, necessitating effective and
lasting control solutions. Environmental factors significantly shape plant ecology. Human …

[HTML][HTML] Harlequin frog rediscoveries provide insights into species persistence in the face of drastic amphibian declines

KE Jaynes, MI Páez-Vacas, D Salazar-Valenzuela… - Biological …, 2022 - Elsevier
Amphibians face global declines, and it remains unclear the extent to which species have
responded, and through what mechanisms, to persist in the face of emerging diseases and …

Amphibian‐killing chytrid in B razil comprises both locally endemic and globally expanding populations

TS Jenkinson, CM Betancourt Román… - Molecular …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), is the
emerging infectious disease implicated in recent population declines and extinctions of …

Inhibition of fungal pathogens across genotypes and temperatures by amphibian skin bacteria

CR Muletz-Wolz, JG Almario, SE Barnett… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Symbiotic bacteria may dampen the impacts of infectious diseases on hosts by inhibiting
pathogen growth. However, our understanding of the generality of pathogen inhibition by …