Life history linked to immune investment in developing amphibians

Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in Amphibian Defense Against Trematode Infection

(2016) Dana M. Calhoun et al.   EcoHealth

MEGA7: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 7.0 for Bigger Datasets

(2016) Sudhir Kumar et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Susceptibility to disease varies with ontogeny and immunocompetence in a threatened amphibian

(2016) Amalina Abu Bakar et al.   OECOLOGIA

Differences in sensitivity to the fungal pathogenBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisamong amphibian populations

(2015) Paul W. Bradley et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Development of antimicrobial peptide defenses of southern leopard frogs, Rana sphenocephala, against the pathogenic chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2015) Whitney M. Holden et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

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

(2015) Jordan G Kueneman et al.   ISME Journal

Host life history and host-parasite syntopy predict behavioural resistance and tolerance of parasites

(2015) Brittany F. Sears et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Quantitative Proteomics of an Amphibian Pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, following Exposure to Thyroid Hormone

(2015) Jose Thekkiniath et al.   PLoS One

Larval Environment Alters Amphibian Immune Defenses Differentially across Life Stages and Populations

(2015) Katherine L. Krynak et al.   PLoS One

The Metabolic Pace-of-Life Model: Incorporating Ectothermic Organisms into the Theory of Vertebrate Ecoimmunology

(2014) F. C. Sandmeier et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Regulation of the Rana sylvatica brevinin-1SY antimicrobial peptide during development and in dorsal and ventral skin in response to freezing, anoxia and dehydration

(2014) B. A. Katzenback et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

SUSCEPTIBILITY TO THE AMPHIBIAN CHYTRID FUNGUS VARIES WITH ONTOGENY IN THE DIRECT-DEVELOPING FROG, ELEUTHERODACTYLUS COQUI

(2014) Penny F. Langhammer et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE DISEASES

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

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

A novel subtilisin-like serine protease of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is induced by thyroid hormone and degrades antimicrobial peptides

(2013) Jose C. Thekkiniath et al.   Fungal Biology

Experimental infection dynamics: using immunosuppression and in vivo parasite tracking to understand host resistance in an amphibian-trematode system

(2013) B. E. LaFonte et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Interactive effects of competition and predator cues on immune responses of leopard frogs at metamorphosis

(2013) M. L. Groner et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

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

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

Transcriptome resources for the frogsLithobates clamitansandPseudacris regilla, emphasizing antimicrobial peptides and conserved loci for phylogenetics

(2013) Laura S. Robertson et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Biodiversity decreases disease through predictable changes in host community competence

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

Living fast and dying of infection: host life history drives interspecific variation in infection and disease risk

(2012) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

PHYLOGENETIC ANALYSES REVEAL UNEXPECTED PATTERNS IN THE EVOLUTION OF REPRODUCTIVE MODES IN FROGS

(2012) Ivan Gomez-Mestre et al.   EVOLUTION

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

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

Relationship between pace of life and immune responses in wild rodents

(2012) M. Andrea Previtali et al.   OIKOS

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

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

(2011) Valerie J McKenzie et al.   ISME Journal

The contribution of skin antimicrobial peptides to the system of innate immunity in anurans

(2010) J. Michael Conlon   CELL AND TISSUE RESEARCH

Expression of genes encoding antimicrobial peptides in the Harderian gland of the bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus

(2010) Itaru Hasunuma et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY C-TOXICOLOGY & PHARMACOLOGY

Adaptations of skin peptide defences and possible response to the amphibian chytrid fungus in populations of Australian green-eyed treefrogs, Litoria genimaculata

(2010) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

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

Peptidomic analysis of skin secretions from the bullfrog Lithobates catesbeianus (Ranidae) identifies multiple peptides with potent insulin-releasing activity

(2010) Milena Mechkarska et al.   PEPTIDES

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

(2010) Ursina Tobler et al.   PLoS One

Variations in the expressed antimicrobial peptide repertoire of northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens) populations suggest intraspecies differences in resistance to pathogens

(2009) Jacob A. Tennessen et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

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

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Skin peptides of different life stages of Ewing's tree frog

(2009) Ermin Schadich et al.   Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A-Ecological Genetics and Physiology

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

Antimicrobial peptides from the skins of North American frogs

(2008) J. Michael Conlon et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES

Infection intensity and sampling locality affectBatrachochytrium dendrobatidisdistribution among body regions on green-eyed tree frogsLitoria genimaculata

(2008) S North et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

All hosts are not equal: explaining differential patterns of malformations in an amphibian community

(2008) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

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

Skin bradykinin-related peptides (BRPs) and their biosynthetic precursors (kininogens): Comparisons between various taxa of Chinese and North American ranid frogs

(2007) YeeTing Sin et al.   PEPTIDES