Interacting Symbionts and Immunity in the Amphibian Skin Mucosome Predict Disease Risk and Probiotic Effectiveness

Assessing Risk and Guidance on Monitoring ofBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisin Europe through Identification of Taxonomic Selectivity of Infection

(2013) VOJTECH BALÁŽ et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Context-dependent amphibian host population response to an invading pathogen

(2013) Benjamin J. Doddington et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

(2013) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   NATURE

Gut metagenome in European women with normal, impaired and diabetic glucose control

(2013) Fredrik H. Karlsson et al.   NATURE

Whether the Weather Drives Patterns of Endemic Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: A Pathogen Proliferation Approach

(2013) Kris A. Murray et al.   PLoS One

Metagenomic Predictions: From Microbiome to Complex Health and Environmental Phenotypes in Humans and Cattle

(2013) Elizabeth M. Ross et al.   PLoS One

The Invasive Chytrid Fungus of Amphibians Paralyzes Lymphocyte Responses

(2013) J. S. Fites et al.   SCIENCE

Probiotics: Finding the Right Regulatory Balance

(2013) D. E. Hoffmann et al.   SCIENCE

The Impact of the Gut Microbiota on Human Health: An Integrative View

(2012) Jose C. Clemente et al.   CELL

Towards a Better Understanding of the Use of Probiotics for Preventing Chytridiomycosis in Panamanian Golden Frogs

(2012) Matthew H. Becker et al.   EcoHealth

Increasing antagonistic interactions cause bacterial communities to collapse at high diversity

(2012) Joachim Becker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Immune evasion or avoidance: Fungal skin infection linked to reduced defence peptides in Australian green-eyed treefrogs, Litoria serrata

(2012) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   Fungal Biology

Predicting Wild Hosts for Amphibian Chytridiomycosis: Integrating Host Life-History Traits with Pathogen Environmental Requirements

(2012) Kris A. Murray et al.   HUMAN AND ECOLOGICAL RISK ASSESSMENT

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

Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health

(2012) Matthew C. Fisher et al.   NATURE

Modulating immunity as a therapy for bacterial infections

(2012) Robert E. W. Hancock et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Bacteriocins — a viable alternative to antibiotics?

(2012) Paul D. Cotter et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Context-dependent symbioses and their potential roles in wildlife diseases

(2012) J. H. Daskin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Interaction between the intestinal microbiota and host in Clostridium difficile colonization resistance

(2012) Robert A. Britton et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2011) Jenifer B. Walke et al.   BIOTROPICA

Structural diversity and species distribution of host-defense peptides in frog skin secretions

(2011) J. Michael Conlon   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Differential Host Susceptibility to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, an Emerging Amphibian Pathogen

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

Treatment of amphibians infected with chytrid fungus: learning from failed trials with itraconazole, antimicrobial peptides, bacteria, and heat therapy

(2011) DC Woodhams et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

The ebb and flow of antimicrobial skin peptides defends northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) against chytridiomycosis

(2011) James D. Pask et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Skin microbiota: Microbial community structure and its potential association with health and disease

(2011) Mariana Rosenthal et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Valerie J McKenzie et al.   ISME Journal

Bifidobacteria can protect from enteropathogenic infection through production of acetate

(2011) Shinji Fukuda et al.   NATURE

The skin microbiome

(2011) Elizabeth A. Grice et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Multiple emergences of genetically diverse amphibian-infecting chytrids include a globalized hypervirulent recombinant lineage

(2011) R. A. Farrer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Psychrotrophic Strain of Janthinobacterium lividum from a Cold Alaskan Soil Produces Prodigiosin

(2010) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   DNA AND CELL BIOLOGY

Interactions between Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and its amphibian hosts: a review of pathogenesis and immunity

(2010) Jamie Voyles et al.   MICROBES AND INFECTION

Conservation status of New Zealand frogs, 2009

(2010) Donald G Newman et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Within- and Among-Population Variation in Chytridiomycosis-Induced Mortality in the Toad Alytes obstetricans

(2010) Ursina Tobler et al.   PLoS One

Epidemic disease decimates amphibian abundance, species diversity, and evolutionary history in the highlands of central Panama

(2010) A. J. Crawford et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Interacting Parasites

(2010) Kevin D. Lafferty   SCIENCE

Like Will to Like: Abundances of Closely Related Species Can Predict Susceptibility to Intestinal Colonization by Pathogenic and Commensal Bacteria

(2010) Bärbel Stecher et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Efficacy of SYBR 14/propidium iodide viability stain for the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2009) MP Stockwell et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

The NIH Human Microbiome Project

(2009) et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Skin Peptide Activities against Opportunistic Bacterial Pathogens of the African Clawed Frog (Xenopus laevis) and Three Litoria Frogs

(2009) Ermin Schadich   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Inhibition of frog antimicrobial peptides by extracellular products of the bacterial pathogenAeromonas hydrophila

(2009) E. Schadich et al.   LETTERS IN APPLIED MICROBIOLOGY

The alyteserins: Two families of antimicrobial peptides from the skin secretions of the midwife toad Alytes obstetricans (Alytidae)

(2009) J. Michael Conlon et al.   PEPTIDES

LIFE-HISTORY TRADE-OFFS INFLUENCE DISEASE IN CHANGING CLIMATES: STRATEGIES OF AN AMPHIBIAN PATHOGEN

(2008) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   ECOLOGY

Monospecies and multispecies probiotic formulations produce different systemic and local immunostimulatory effects in the gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata L.)

(2008) Irene Salinas et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Amphibian Chemical Defense: Antifungal Metabolites of the Microsymbiont Janthinobacterium lividum on the Salamander Plethodon cinereus

(2008) Robert M. Brucker et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Probiotics in aquaculture: The need, principles and mechanisms of action and screening processes

(2007) Aditya Kesarcodi-Watson et al.   AQUACULTURE