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 …

Cheating evolution: engineering gene drives to manipulate the fate of wild populations

J Champer, A Buchman, OS Akbari - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Engineered gene drives—the process of stimulating the biased inheritance of specific genes—
have the potential to enable the spread of desirable genes throughout wild populations or to …

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans sp. nov. causes lethal chytridiomycosis in amphibians

A Martel, A Spitzen-van der Sluijs… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The current biodiversity crisis encompasses a sixth mass extinction event affecting the entire
class of amphibians. The infectious disease chytridiomycosis is considered one of the major …

Diploid-dominant life cycles characterize the early evolution of Fungi

KR Amses, DR Simmons… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Most of the described species in kingdom Fungi are contained in two phyla, the Ascomycota
and the Basidiomycota (subkingdom Dikarya). As a result, our understanding of the biology …

[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 …

Cellular stress associated with aneuploidy

J Zhu, HJ Tsai, MR Gordon, R Li - Developmental cell, 2018 - cell.com
Aneuploidy, chromosome stoichiometry that deviates from exact multiples of the haploid
compliment of an organism, exists in eukaryotic microbes, several normal human tissues …

Assemblathon 2: evaluating de novo methods of genome assembly in three vertebrate species

KR Bradnam, JN Fass, A Alexandrov, P Baranay… - …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Background The process of generating raw genome sequence data continues to become
cheaper, faster, and more accurate. However, assembly of such data into high-quality …

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 …