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Managing Amphibian Disease with Skin Microbiota

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Using “Omics” and Integrated Multi-Omics Approaches to Guide Probiotic Selection to Mitigate Chytridiomycosis and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Microbiota-Mediated Inflammation and Antimicrobial Defense in the Intestine

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Inhibitory bacteria reduce fungi on early life stages of endangered Colorado boreal toads (Anaxyrus boreas)

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Phylogenetic distribution of symbiotic bacteria from Panamanian amphibians that inhibit growth of the lethal fungal pathogenBatrachochytrium dendrobatidis

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

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Community Structure and Function of Amphibian Skin Microbes: An Experiment with Bullfrogs Exposed to a Chytrid Fungus

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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

Amphibian skin may select for rare environmental microbes

(2014) Jenifer B Walke et al.   ISME Journal

Amphibians acquire resistance to live and dead fungus overcoming fungal immunosuppression

(2014) Taegan A. McMahon et al.   NATURE

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

(2014) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   PLoS One

Investigating Differences across Host Species and Scales to Explain the Distribution of the Amphibian Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

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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

Subsampled open-reference clustering creates consistent, comprehensive OTU definitions and scales to billions of sequences

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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

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

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

The microbiome explored: recent insights and future challenges

(2013) Martin Blaser et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

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Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

(2012) Nicholas A Bokulich et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

(2011) Valerie J McKenzie et al.   ISME Journal

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

The Bacterially Produced Metabolite Violacein Is Associated with Survival of Amphibians Infected with a Lethal Fungus

(2009) M. H. Becker et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

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

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

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Pathogenesis of Chytridiomycosis, a Cause of Catastrophic Amphibian Declines

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