Captivity and Infection by the Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Perturb the Amphibian Skin Microbiome

Probiotic consortia are not uniformly effective against different amphibian chytrid pathogen isolates

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Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

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Amphibian chytridiomycosis outbreak dynamics are linked with host skin bacterial community structure

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Disruption of skin microbiota contributes to salamander disease

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Gut fungal dysbiosis correlates with reduced efficacy of fecal microbiota transplantation in Clostridium difficile infection

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Simple statistical identification and removal of contaminant sequences in marker-gene and metagenomics data

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Prodigiosin, Violacein, and Volatile Organic Compounds Produced by Widespread Cutaneous Bacteria of Amphibians Can Inhibit Two Batrachochytrium Fungal Pathogens

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Greater Species Richness of Bacterial Skin Symbionts Better Suppresses the Amphibian Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis

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Temperature variation, bacterial diversity and fungal infection dynamics in the amphibian skin

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Genomic innovations linked to infection strategies across emerging pathogenic chytrid fungi

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Inhibition of Fungal Pathogens across Genotypes and Temperatures by Amphibian Skin Bacteria

(2017) Carly R. Muletz-Wolz et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Fight Fungi with Fungi: Antifungal Properties of the Amphibian Mycobiome

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Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as an Emerging Ubiquitous Pathogen: Looking Beyond Contemporary Antibiotic Therapy

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Dynamics of host populations affected by the emerging fungal pathogenBatrachochytrium salamandrivorans

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Stress and stability: applying the Anna Karenina principle to animal microbiomes

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Composition of the Cutaneous Bacterial Community in Japanese Amphibians: Effects of Captivity, Host Species, and Body Region

(2016) Joana Sabino-Pinto et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Probiotic treatment restores protection against lethal fungal infection lost during amphibian captivity

(2016) Jordan G. Kueneman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Harnessing the Microbiome to Prevent Fungal Infections: Lessons from Amphibians

(2016) Jenifer B. Walke et al.   PLoS Pathogens

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

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Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Usinglme4

(2015) Douglas Bates et al.   Journal of Statistical Software

Microbiome Variation Across Amphibian Skin Regions: Implications for Chytridiomycosis Mitigation Efforts

(2015) Arnaud Bataille et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Composition of symbiotic bacteria predicts survival in Panamanian golden frogs infected with a lethal fungus

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Averting a North American biodiversity crisis

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Emerging disease in UK amphibians

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Successful treatment of Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans infections in salamanders requires synergy between voriconazole, polymyxin E and temperature

(2015) M. Blooi et al.   Scientific Reports

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

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The effect of captivity on the cutaneous bacterial community of the critically endangered Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki)

(2014) Matthew H. Becker et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The pathogenBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisdisturbs the frog skin microbiome during a natural epidemic and experimental infection

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

Recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders

(2014) A. Martel et al.   SCIENCE

Interactions between amphibians' symbiotic bacteria cause the production of emergent anti-fungal metabolites

(2014) Andrew H. Loudon et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

PEAR: a fast and accurate Illumina Paired-End reAd mergeR

(2013) J. Zhang et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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

Microbial community dynamics and effect of environmental microbial reservoirs on red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus)

(2013) Andrew H Loudon et al.   ISME Journal

Duplex Real-Time PCR for Rapid Simultaneous Detection of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans in Amphibian Samples

(2013) M. Blooi et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie 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

Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

(2012) Nicholas A Bokulich et al.   NATURE METHODS

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal