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 …

One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: two decades of progress?

AA Cunningham, P Daszak… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Infectious diseases affect people, domestic animals and wildlife alike, with many pathogens
being able to infect multiple species. Fifty years ago, following the wide-scale manufacture …

Understanding the drivers of S outheast A sian biodiversity loss

AC Hughes - Ecosphere, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Southeast Asia (SE Asia) is a known global hotspot of biodiversity and endemism,
yet the region is also one of the most biotically threatened. Ecosystems across the region are …

[LIVRE][B] Emergent ecologies

E Kirksey - 2015 - books.google.com
In an era of global warming, natural disasters, endangered species, and devastating
pollution, contemporary writing on the environment largely focuses on doomsday scenarios …

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 …

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 …

Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

SJ O'hanlon, A Rieux, RA Farrer, GM Rosa… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Globalized infectious diseases are causing species declines worldwide, but their source
often remains elusive. We used whole-genome sequencing to solve the spatiotemporal …

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 …

Complex history of the amphibian-killing chytrid fungus revealed with genome resequencing data

EB Rosenblum, TY James… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the evolutionary history of microbial pathogens is critical for mitigating the
impacts of emerging infectious diseases on economically and ecologically important host …

Early-diverging fungal phyla: taxonomy, species concept, ecology, distribution, anthropogenic impact, and novel phylogenetic proposals

K Voigt, TY James, PM Kirk, ALCMA Santiago… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
The increasing number of new fungal species described from all over the world along with
the use of genetics to define taxa, has dramatically changed the classification system of …