A cold-blooded view of adaptive immunity

MF Flajnik - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2018 - nature.com
The adaptive immune system arose 500 million years ago in ectothermic (cold-blooded)
vertebrates. Classically, the adaptive immune system has been defined by the presence of …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

Improving conservation policy with genomics: a guide to integrating adaptive potential into US Endangered Species Act decisions for conservation practitioners and …

WC Funk, BR Forester, SJ Converse, C Darst… - Conservation …, 2019 - Springer
Rapid environmental change makes adaptive potential—the capacity of populations to
evolve genetically based changes in response to selection—more important than ever for …

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 …

After the epidemic: ongoing declines, stabilizations and recoveries in amphibians afflicted by chytridiomycosis

BC Scheele, LF Skerratt, LF Grogan, DA Hunter… - Biological …, 2017 - Elsevier
The impacts of pathogen emergence in naïve hosts can be catastrophic, and pathogen
spread now ranks as a major threat to biodiversity. However, pathogen impacts can persist …

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 …