Batrachochytrium fungi: stealth invaders in amphibian skin

The amphibian microbiome exhibits poor resilience following pathogen-induced disturbance

(2021) Andrea J. Jani et al.   ISME Journal

Winter is coming–Temperature affects immune defenses and susceptibility to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

(2021) Edward Davis Carter et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Incapacitating effects of fungal coinfection in a novel pathogen system

(2020) Cait A. McDonald et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Metabolites released from apoptotic cells act as tissue messengers

(2020) Christopher B. Medina et al.   NATURE

Sustained immune activation is associated with susceptibility to the amphibian chytrid fungus

(2020) Anna E. Savage et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Frog Skin Microbiota Vary With Host Species and Environment but Not Chytrid Infection

(2020) Ariel Kruger   Frontiers in Microbiology

Presence of low virulence chytrid fungi could protect European amphibians from more deadly strains

(2020) Mark S. Greener et al.   Nature Communications

Metabolites from Microbes Isolated from the Skin of the Panamanian Rocket Frog Colostethus panamansis (Anura: Dendrobatidae)

(2020) Christian Martin H. et al.   Metabolites

Preparatory immunity: Seasonality of mucosal skin defences and Batrachochytrium infections in Southern leopard frogs

(2020) Emily H. Le Sage et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Early presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Mexico with a contemporary dominance of the global panzootic lineage

(2020) M. Delia Basanta et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Skin microbiome correlates with bioclimate and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection intensity in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest treefrogs

(2020) Katharina Ruthsatz et al.   Scientific Reports

Diverse genotypes of the amphibian killing fungus produce distinct phenotypes through plastic responses to temperature

(2019) Carly R. Muletz-Wolz et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Viscosin-like lipopeptides from frog skin bacteria inhibit Aspergillus fumigatus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis detected by imaging mass spectrometry and molecular networking

(2019) Christian Martin H. et al.   Scientific Reports

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

(2019) Ben C. Scheele et al.   SCIENCE

Metabolites involved in immune evasion by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis include the polyamine spermidine

(2019) Louise A. Rollins-Smith et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Community richness of amphibian skin bacteria correlates with bioclimate at the global scale

(2019) Jordan G. Kueneman et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Double trouble: co-infections of chytrid fungi will severely impact widely distributed newts

(2019) Ana V. Longo et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Colony‐stimulating factor‐1‐ and interleukin‐34‐derived macrophages differ in their susceptibility to Mycobacterium marinum

(2019) Milan Popovic et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

Cryptic diversity of a widespread global pathogen reveals expanded threats to amphibian conservation

(2019) Allison Q. Byrne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2019) Kieran A. Bates et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Gene expression varies within and between enzootic and epizootic lineages of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) in the Americas

(2019) C.A. McDonald et al.   Fungal Biology

In vitro modeling of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection of the amphibian skin

(2019) Elin Verbrugghe et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of resistance to chytridiomycosis is associated with a robust early immune response

(2018) Laura F. Grogan et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

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

(2018) Kieran A. Bates et al.   Nature Communications

Hybrids of amphibian chytrid show high virulence in native hosts

(2018) S. E. Greenspan et al.   Scientific Reports

Host and Aquatic Environment Shape the Amphibian Skin Microbiome but Effects on Downstream Resistance to the Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Are Variable

(2018) Andrea J. Jani et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Gene expression differs in susceptible and resistant amphibians exposed to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2018) Evan A. Eskew et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Globally invasive genotypes of the amphibian chytrid outcompete an enzootic lineage in coinfections

(2018) Thomas S. Jenkinson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2017) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Drivers of salamander extirpation mediated by Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans

(2017) Gwij Stegen et al.   NATURE

Genomic innovations linked to infection strategies across emerging pathogenic chytrid fungi

(2017) Rhys A. Farrer et al.   Nature Communications

Fight Fungi with Fungi: Antifungal Properties of the Amphibian Mycobiome

(2017) Patrick J. Kearns et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Epidermal cell death in frogs with chytridiomycosis

(2017) Laura A. Brannelly et al.   PeerJ

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

Antifungal isolates database of amphibian skin-associated bacteria and function against emerging fungal pathogens

(2015) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   ECOLOGY

Immunomodulatory Metabolites Released by the Frog-Killing Fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2015) Louise A. Rollins-Smith et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

Distinct functional roles of amphibian (Xenopus laevis) colony-stimulating factor-1- and interleukin-34-derived macrophages

(2015) L. Grayfer et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

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

More than Skin Deep: Functional Genomic Basis for Resistance to Amphibian Chytridiomycosis

(2014) Amy R. Ellison et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Amphibian skin may select for rare environmental microbes

(2014) Jenifer B Walke et al.   ISME Journal

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

Fighting a Losing Battle: Vigorous Immune Response Countered by Pathogen Suppression of Host Defenses in the Chytridiomycosis-Susceptible Frog Atelopus zeteki

(2014) Amy R. Ellison et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

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

(2013) Andrew H Loudon et al.   ISME Journal

The amphibian skin-associated microbiome across species, space and life history stages

(2013) Jordan G. Kueneman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Changes in the Inflammatory Response to Injury and Its Resolution during the Loss of Regenerative Capacity in Developing Xenopus Limbs

(2013) Anthony L. Mescher 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

The Invasive Chytrid Fungus of Amphibians Paralyzes Lymphocyte Responses

(2013) J. S. Fites et al.   SCIENCE

Host invasion by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: fungal and epidermal ultrastructure in model anurans

(2012) SE Greenspan et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

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

Novel, panzootic and hybrid genotypes of amphibian chytridiomycosis associated with the bullfrog trade

(2012) LISA M. SCHLOEGEL et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Germ Tube Mediated Invasion of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Amphibian Skin Is Host Dependent

(2012) Pascale Van Rooij et al.   PLoS One

Genomic Transition to Pathogenicity in Chytrid Fungi

(2011) Suzanne Joneson et al.   PLoS Pathogens

An Interaction between Kynurenine and the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor Can Generate Regulatory T Cells

(2010) J. D. Mezrich et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Pathogenesis of Chytridiomycosis, a Cause of Catastrophic Amphibian Declines

(2009) J. Voyles et al.   SCIENCE

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