Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture

MC Fisher, SJ Gurr, CA Cuomo, DS Blehert, H **… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture …

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 …

Restoration, reintroduction, and rewilding in a changing world

RT Corlett - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2016 - cell.com
The increasing abandonment of marginal land creates new opportunities for restoration,
reintroduction, and rewilding, but what do these terms mean in a rapidly and irreversibly …

Fungal infections in animals: a patchwork of different situations

S Seyedmousavi, SMG Bosco, S De Hoog… - Medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The importance of fungal infections in both human and animals has increased over the last
decades. This article represents an overview of the different categories of fungal infections …

Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycoses in nature

TWJ Garner, BR Schmidt, A Martel… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Amphibians across the planet face the threat of population decline and extirpation caused
by the disease chytridiomycosis. Despite consensus that the fungal pathogens responsible …

Global Patterns of the Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Support Conservation Urgency

DH Olson, KL Ronnenberg, CK Glidden… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a skin pathogen that
can cause the emerging infectious disease chytridiomycosis in susceptible species. It has …

Integral chain management of wildlife diseases

A Martel, M Vila‐Escale… - Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has caused the most prominent loss of
vertebrate diversity ever recorded, which peaked in the 1980s. Recent incursion by its sister …

Tackling emerging fungal threats to animal health, food security and ecosystem resilience

MC Fisher, NAR Gow, SJ Gurr - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Emerging infections caused by fungi have become a widely recognized global
phenomenon. Their notoriety stems from their causing plagues and famines, driving species …

Mechanisms underlying host persistence following amphibian disease emergence determine appropriate management strategies

LA Brannelly, HI McCallum, LF Grogan… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging infectious diseases have caused many species declines, changes in communities
and even extinctions. There are also many species that persist following devastating …

Virulence and pathogenicity of chytrid fungi causing amphibian extinctions

MC Fisher, F Pasmans, A Martel - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Ancient enzootic associations between wildlife and their infections allow evolution to
innovate mechanisms of pathogenicity that are counterbalanced by host responses …