The prevalence and intensity of parasites in wild hosts varies across space and is a key
determinant of infection risk in humans, domestic animals and threatened wildlife. Because …

Background Rescuing amphibian diversity is an achievable conservation challenge.
Disease mitigation is one essential component of population management. Here we assess …

Host-microbe symbioses rely on the successful transmission or acquisition of symbionts in
each new generation. Amphibians host a diverse cutaneous microbiota, and many of these …

Species that are tolerant of broad environmental gradients may be less vulnerable to
epizootic outbreaks of disease. Chytridriomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium …

Driven by co‐evolution with pathogens, host immunity continuously adapts to optimize
defence against pathogens within a given environment. Recent advances in genetics …

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

Ecoimmunology is the field of study that attempts to understand the functions of the immune
system in the context of the environment of the host. For amphibians, this is a very broad …

The disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis (Bd), is a key driver of global amphibian declines. While chytridiomycosis can …

Amphibians have undergone dramatic declines and extinctions worldwide. Prominent
among these have been the stream-breeding frogs in the rainforests of eastern Australia …

Contributing to the worldwide biodiversity crisis are emerging infectious diseases, which can
lead to extirpations and extinctions of hosts. For example, the infectious fungal pathogen …