Mitigating Disease Impacts in Amphibian Populations: Capitalizing on the Thermal Optimum Mismatch Between a Pathogen and Its Host

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

(2019) Ben C. Scheele et al.   SCIENCE

Impacts of thermal mismatches on chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis prevalence are moderated by life stage, body size, elevation and latitude

(2019) Jeremy M. Cohen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental context and differences between native and invasive observed niches of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans affect invasion risk assessments in the Western Palaearctic

(2018) Wouter Beukema et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

(2018) Simon J. O’Hanlon et al.   SCIENCE

Shifts in disease dynamics in a tropical amphibian assemblage are not due to pathogen attenuation

(2018) Jamie Voyles et al.   SCIENCE

Temperature-Dependent Effects of Cutaneous Bacteria on a Frog’s Tolerance of Fungal Infection

(2018) Matthew J. Robak et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Variation in individual temperature preferences, not behavioural fever, affects susceptibility to chytridiomycosis in amphibians

(2018) Erin L. Sauer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

An interaction between climate change and infectious disease drove widespread amphibian declines

(2018) Jeremy M. Cohen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Realistic heat pulses protect frogs from disease under simulated rainforest frog thermal regimes

(2017) Sasha E. Greenspan et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

High temperatures influence sexual development differentially in male and female tadpoles of the Indian skipper frog, Euphlyctis cyanophlyctis

(2017) Samadhan Krushna Phuge   JOURNAL OF BIOSCIENCES

Drivers of salamander extirpation mediated by Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

(2017) Gwij Stegen et al.   NATURE

Diversity in growth patterns among strains of the lethal fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis across extended thermal optima

(2017) Jamie Voyles et al.   OECOLOGIA

Infection increases vulnerability to climate change via effects on host thermal tolerance

(2017) Sasha E. Greenspan et al.   Scientific Reports

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans is the predominant chytrid fungus in Vietnamese salamanders

(2017) Alexandra E. Laking et al.   Scientific Reports

Antifungal treatment of wild amphibian populations caused a transient reduction in the prevalence of the fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2017) Corina C. Geiger et al.   Scientific Reports

The effect of temperature on development and behaviour of relict leopard frog tadpoles

(2017) Jeffrey A. Goldstein et al.   Conservation Physiology

In-situ itraconazole treatment improves survival rate during an amphibian chytridiomycosis epidemic

(2016) Michael A. Hudson et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Thermoregulatory Behavior ofAnaxyrus americanusin Response to Infection withBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2016) Stephanie A. Karavlan et al.   COPEIA

Warm vegetarians? Heat waves and diet shifts in tadpoles

(2016) B. M. Carreira et al.   ECOLOGY

Infection risk decreases with increasing mismatch in host and pathogen environmental tolerances

(2016) A. Justin Nowakowski et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Heritability ofBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisburden and its genetic correlation with development time in a population of Common toad (Bufo spinosus)

(2016) Gemma Palomar et al.   EVOLUTION

Testing the climate variability hypothesis in thermal tolerance limits of tropical and temperate tadpoles

(2016) L. M. Gutiérrez-Pesquera et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Amphibian-killing chytrid in Brazil comprises both locally endemic and globally expanding populations

(2016) T. S. Jenkinson et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Climate forcing of an emerging pathogenic fungus across a montane multi-host community

(2016) Frances C. Clare et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycoses in nature

(2016) Trenton W. J. Garner et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Overview of chytrid emergence and impacts on amphibians

(2016) Karen R. Lips   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Spread of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus across Lowland Populations of Túngara Frogs in Panamá

(2016) Sofía Rodríguez-Brenes et al.   PLoS One

Large-scale recovery of an endangered amphibian despite ongoing exposure to multiple stressors

(2016) Roland A. Knapp et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adaptive tolerance to a pathogenic fungus drives major histocompatibility complex evolution in natural amphibian populations

(2016) Anna E. Savage et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Landscape context influences chytrid fungus distribution in an endangered European amphibian

(2015) B. C. Scheele et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Amphibian Symbiotic Bacteria Do Not Show a Universal Ability To Inhibit Growth of the Global Panzootic Lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2015) Rachael E. Antwis et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Successful elimination of a lethal wildlife infectious disease in nature

(2015) Jaime Bosch et al.   Biology Letters

Upper thermal tolerance in anuran embryos and tadpoles at constant and variable peak temperatures

(2015) J.L. Turriago et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis exposure effects on foraging efficiencies and body size in anuran tadpoles

(2015) SM Hanlon et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Susceptibility of amphibians to chytridiomycosis is associated with MHC class II conformation

(2015) A. Bataille et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disentangling host, pathogen, and environmental determinants of a recently emerged wildlife disease: lessons from the first 15 years of amphibian chytridiomycosis research

(2015) Timothy Y. James et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Short Term Minimum Water Temperatures Determine Levels of Infection by the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in Alytes obstetricans Tadpoles

(2015) Saioa Fernández-Beaskoetxea et al.   PLoS One

Elevated Corticosterone Levels and Changes in Amphibian Behavior Are Associated with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) Infection and Bd Lineage

(2015) Caitlin R. Gabor et al.   PLoS One

Treatment of urodelans based on temperature dependent infection dynamics of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

(2015) M. Blooi et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of pond salinization on survival rate of amphibian hosts infected with the chytrid fungus

(2014) Michelle Pirrie Stockwell et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Interventions for Reducing Extinction Risk in Chytridiomycosis-Threatened Amphibians

(2014) BEN C. SCHEELE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Microscopic Aquatic Predators Strongly Affect Infection Dynamics of a Globally Emerged Pathogen

(2014) Dirk S. Schmeller et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Environmental dependency of amphibian-ranavirus genotypic interactions: evolutionary perspectives on infectious diseases

(2014) Pierre Echaubard et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Rapid acclimation to cold allows the cane toad to invade montane areas within its Australian range

(2014) Samantha McCann et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Effects of temperature, density and food quality on larval growth and metamorphosis in the north African green frog Pelophylax saharicus

(2014) Meher Bellakhal et al.   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY

Amphibians acquire resistance to live and dead fungus overcoming fungal immunosuppression

(2014) Taegan A. McMahon et al.   NATURE

Acute Thermal Stressor Increases Glucocorticoid Response but Minimizes Testosterone and Locomotor Performance in the Cane Toad (Rhinella marina)

(2014) Edward J. Narayan et al.   PLoS One

Cool Temperatures Reduce Antifungal Activity of Symbiotic Bacteria of Threatened Amphibians – Implications for Disease Management and Patterns of Decline

(2014) Joshua H. Daskin et al.   PLoS One

Thermal-safety margins and the necessity of thermoregulatory behavior across latitude and elevation

(2014) J. M. Sunday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In vitro sensitivity of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis to antifungal therapeutics

(2014) A. Woodward et al.   RESEARCH IN VETERINARY SCIENCE

Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders

(2014) A. Martel et al.   SCIENCE

Host-specific thermal profiles affect fitness of a widespread pathogen

(2014) Lisa A. Stevenson et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Infection and co-infection by the amphibian chytrid fungus and ranavirus in wild Costa Rican frogs

(2013) SM Whitfield et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Wetland characteristics influence disease risk for a threatened amphibian

(2013) Geoffrey W. Heard et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Do global models predicting environmental suitability for the amphibian fungus,Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, have local value to conservation managers?

(2013) Karen Riley et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Pathogenicity of Frog Virus 3-like Virus in Red-eared Slider Turtles (Trachemys scripta elegans) at Two Environmental Temperatures

(2013) M.C. Allender et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PATHOLOGY

Effect of Temperature on Host Response to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection in the Mountain Yellow-legged Frog (Rana muscosa)

(2013) Sara E. Andre et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

IMMUNIZATION IS INEFFECTIVE AT PREVENTING INFECTION AND MORTALITY DUE TO THE AMPHIBIAN CHYTRID FUNGUS BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS

(2013) Mary J. Stice et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

Prior Infection Does Not Improve Survival against the Amphibian Disease Chytridiomycosis

(2013) Scott D. Cashins et al.   PLoS One

Population Recovery following Decline in an Endangered Stream-Breeding Frog (Mixophyes fleayi) from Subtropical Australia

(2013) David Alan Newell et al.   PLoS One

Variation in Thermal Performance of a Widespread Pathogen, the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2013) Lisa A. Stevenson et al.   PLoS One

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans sp. nov. causes lethal chytridiomycosis in amphibians

(2013) A. Martel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hot bodies protect amphibians against chytrid infection in nature

(2013) Jodi J. L. Rowley et al.   Scientific Reports

Daphniapredation on the amphibian chytrid fungus and its impacts on disease risk in tadpoles

(2013) Catherine L. Searle et al.   Ecology and Evolution

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

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

Temperature-driven shifts in a host-parasite interaction drive nonlinear changes in disease risk

(2012) Sara H. Paull et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Estrogen rescues masculinization of genetically female medaka by exposure to cortisol or high temperature

(2012) Takeshi Kitano et al.   MOLECULAR REPRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT

Populations of a Susceptible Amphibian Species Can Grow despite the Presence of a Pathogenic Chytrid Fungus

(2012) Ursina Tobler et al.   PLoS One

Waterfowl: Potential Environmental Reservoirs of the Chytrid Fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2012) An Garmyn et al.   PLoS One

Chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has nonamphibian hosts and releases chemicals that cause pathology in the absence of infection

(2012) T. A. McMahon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Elevated temperature clears chytrid fungus infections from tadpoles of the midwife toad, Alytes obstetricans

(2011) Corina Geiger et al.   AMPHIBIA-REPTILIA

Predation by zooplankton on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: biological control of the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus?

(2011) Julia C. Buck et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Environmental Refuge from Disease-Driven Amphibian Extinction

(2011) ROBERT PUSCHENDORF et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Elevated temperature as a treatment for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in captive frogs

(2011) MWH Chatfield et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Temperature, hydric environment, and prior pathogen exposure alter the experimental severity of chytridiomycosis in boreal toads

(2011) PJ Murphy et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

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

Motile Zoospores of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Move Away from Antifungal Metabolites Produced by Amphibian Skin Bacteria

(2011) Brianna A. Lam et al.   EcoHealth

From metamorphosis to maturity in complex life cycles: equal performance of different juvenile life history pathways

(2011) Benedikt R. Schmidt et al.   ECOLOGY

Mitigating amphibian disease: strategies to maintain wild populations and control chytridiomycosis

(2011) Douglas C Woodhams et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Amphibian Immune Defenses against Chytridiomycosis: Impacts of Changing Environments

(2011) L. A. Rollins-Smith et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Frog skin epithelium: Electrolyte transport and chytridiomycosis

(2011) Craig R. Campbell et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Compensatory effects of recruitment and survival when amphibian populations are perturbed by disease

(2011) Erin Muths et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Engineering a future for amphibians under climate change

(2011) Luke P. Shoo et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Environmental constraints influencing survival of an African parasite in a north temperate habitat: effects of temperature on egg development

(2011) R. C. TINSLEY et al.   PARASITOLOGY

The Lesser Known Challenge of Climate Change: Thermal Variance and Sex-Reversal in Vertebrates with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination

(2011) Jennifer L. Neuwald et al.   PLoS One

Nothing a Hot Bath Won't Cure: Infection Rates of Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Correlate Negatively with Water Temperature under Natural Field Settings

(2011) Matthew J. Forrest et al.   PLoS One

Short-Term Exposure to Warm Microhabitats Could Explain Amphibian Persistence with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2011) Joshua H. Daskin et al.   PLoS One

Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

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

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

MHC genotypes associate with resistance to a frog-killing fungus

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

Treatment of chytridiomycosis requires urgent clinical trials

(2010) L Berger et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Future potential distribution of the emerging amphibian chytrid fungus under anthropogenic climate change

(2010) D Rödder et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

What Drives Chytrid Infections in Newt Populations? Associations with Substrate, Temperature, and Shade

(2010) Thomas R. Raffel et al.   EcoHealth

Factors driving pathogenicity vs. prevalence of amphibian panzootic chytridiomycosis in Iberia

(2010) Susan F. Walker et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Immune Defenses against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a Fungus Linked to Global Amphibian Declines, in the South African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis

(2010) J. P. Ramsey et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Effects of temperature and hydric environment on survival of the Panamanian Golden Frog infected with a pathogenic chytrid fungus

(2010) Heidi M. BUSTAMANTE et al.   Integrative Zoology

Parasites and global warming: net effects of temperature on an intertidal host–parasite system

(2010) A Studer et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

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

(2010) Ursina Tobler et al.   PLoS One

Linking global climate and temperature variability to widespread amphibian declines putatively caused by disease

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

Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians

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

Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions

(2010) V. T. Vredenburg et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global analysis of thermal tolerance and latitude in ectotherms

(2010) J. M. Sunday et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Dermal Cytolytic Peptides and the System of Innate Immunity in Anurans

(2009) J. Michael Conlon et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Global Emergence ofBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisand Amphibian Chytridiomycosis in Space, Time, and Host

(2009) Matthew C. Fisher et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

The role of amphibian antimicrobial peptides in protection of amphibians from pathogens linked to global amphibian declines

(2009) Louise A. Rollins-Smith   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

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

Impact and Dynamics of Disease in Species Threatened by the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus,Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2009) KRIS A. MURRAY et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

The ecology of climate change and infectious diseases

(2009) Kevin D. Lafferty   ECOLOGY

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

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Life history tradeoffs influence mortality associated with the amphibian pathogenBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2009) Trenton W. J. Garner et al.   OIKOS

Expression Profiling the Temperature-Dependent Amphibian Response to Infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2009) Laia Ribas et al.   PLoS One

Pathogenesis of Chytridiomycosis, a Cause of Catastrophic Amphibian Declines

(2009) J. Voyles et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient behaviors of larval amphibians in response to an emerging fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2008) Barbara A. Han et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

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

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

(2008) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   ECOLOGY

Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians

(2008) D. B. Wake et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Sex determination in amphibians

(2008) Masahisa Nakamura   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Riding the Wave: Reconciling the Roles of Disease and Climate Change in Amphibian Declines

(2008) Karen R Lips et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Thermal biology of newts (Notophthalmus viridescens) chronically infected with a naturally occurring pathogen

(2007) Elizabeth Sherman   JOURNAL OF THERMAL BIOLOGY