Amphibian skin may select for rare environmental microbes

Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycosis with bioaugmentation: characteristics of effective probiotics and strategies for their selection and use

(2013) Molly C. Bletz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Defensive microbial symbionts in Hymenoptera

(2013) Martin Kaltenpoth et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Habitat degradation impacts black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) gastrointestinal microbiomes

(2013) Katherine R Amato et al.   ISME Journal

Bacterial Bioluminescence Regulates Expression of a Host Cryptochrome Gene in the Squid-Vibrio Symbiosis

(2013) E. A. C. Heath-Heckman et al.   mBio

Soil bioaugmentation with amphibian cutaneous bacteria protects amphibian hosts from infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2012) Carly R. Muletz et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Changes in cutaneous microbial abundance with sloughing: possible implications for infection and disease in amphibians

(2012) EA Meyer et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Hybrid advantage in skin peptide immune defenses of water frogs (Pelophylax esculentus) at risk from emerging pathogens

(2012) Janine M. Daum et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Synergistic Inhibition of the Lethal Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: The Combined Effect of Symbiotic Bacterial Metabolites and Antimicrobial Peptides of the Frog Rana muscosa

(2012) Jillian M. Myers et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Environmental and ecological factors that shape the gut bacterial communities of fish: a meta-analysis

(2012) KAREN E. SULLAM et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

(2012) Nicholas A Bokulich et al.   NATURE METHODS

Social Immunity in Amphibians: Evidence for Vertical Transmission of Innate Defenses

(2011) Jenifer B. Walke et al.   BIOTROPICA

Differential Host Susceptibility to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, an Emerging Amphibian Pathogen

(2011) C. L. SEARLE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Evidence for a core gut microbiota in the zebrafish

(2011) Guus Roeselers et al.   ISME Journal

Co-habiting amphibian species harbor unique skin bacterial communities in wild populations

(2011) Valerie J McKenzie et al.   ISME Journal

Phylogenetic analysis of the fecal microbial community in herbivorous land and marine iguanas of the Galápagos Islands using 16S rRNA-based pyrosequencing

(2011) Pei-Ying Hong et al.   ISME Journal

Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

(2011) J. L. Sachs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diet Drives Convergence in Gut Microbiome Functions Across Mammalian Phylogeny and Within Humans

(2011) B. D. Muegge et al.   SCIENCE

New paradigms for the evolution of beneficial infections

(2011) Joel L. Sachs et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Role of gastrointestinal microbiota in fish

(2010) Sukanta K Nayak   AQUACULTURE RESEARCH

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

The contribution of skin antimicrobial peptides to the system of innate immunity in anurans

(2010) J. Michael Conlon   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Adaptations of skin peptide defences and possible response to the amphibian chytrid fungus in populations of Australian green-eyed treefrogs, Litoria genimaculata

(2010) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

UniFrac: an effective distance metric for microbial community comparison

(2010) Catherine Lozupone et al.   ISME Journal

Rapidly denoising pyrosequencing amplicon reads by exploiting rank-abundance distributions

(2010) Jens Reeder et al.   NATURE METHODS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

(2010) Monika Bright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Cutaneous Bacteria of the Redback Salamander Prevent Morbidity Associated with a Lethal Disease

(2010) Matthew H. Becker et al.   PLoS One

Establishment and Vertical Passage of Enterobacter (Pantoea) agglomerans and Klebsiella pneumoniae through All Life Stages of the Mediterranean Fruit Fly (Diptera: Tephritidae)

(2009) C. R. Lauzon et al.   ANNALS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Proportion of individuals with anti- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis skin bacteria is associated with population persistence in the frog Rana muscosa

(2009) Brianna A. Lam et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Variations in the expressed antimicrobial peptide repertoire of northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) populations suggest intraspecies differences in resistance to pathogens

(2009) Jacob A. Tennessen et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Topographical and Temporal Diversity of the Human Skin Microbiome

(2009) E. A. Grice et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time

(2009) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular Microbial Diversity Survey of Sponge Reproductive Stages and Mechanistic Insights into Vertical Transmission of Microbial Symbionts

(2008) S. Schmitt et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Paternal transmission of symbiotic bacteria in malaria vectors

(2008) Claudia Damiani et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Addition of antifungal skin bacteria to salamanders ameliorates the effects of chytridiomycosis

(2008) RN Harris et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Antifungal skin bacteria, embryonic survival, and communal nesting in four-toed salamanders, Hemidactylium scutatum

(2008) Jenifer L. Banning et al.   OECOLOGIA

The influence of sex, handedness, and washing on the diversity of hand surface bacteria

(2008) N. Fierer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

(2008) R. E. Ley et al.   SCIENCE