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

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

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Antimicrobial peptide resistance mediates resilience of prominent gut commensals during inflammation

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Amphibian skin may select for rare environmental microbes

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

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

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

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Bacterial colonization of Hydra hatchlings follows a robust temporal pattern

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A horizon scan of global conservation issues for 2014

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Genetic attributes of midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) populations do not correlate with degree of species decline

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Evidence of chytrid-mediated population declines in common midwife toad in Serra da Estrela, Portugal

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Abrupt Temporal Fluctuations in the Chicken Fecal Microbiota Are Explained by Its Gastrointestinal Origin

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Towards a Better Understanding of the Use of Probiotics for Preventing Chytridiomycosis in Panamanian Golden Frogs

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Gut microbiota instead of host genotype drive the specificity in the interaction of a natural host-parasite system

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Immune evasion or avoidance: Fungal skin infection linked to reduced defence peptides in Australian green-eyed treefrogs, Litoria serrata

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The volatile-producing Flavobacterium johnsoniae strain GSE09 shows biocontrol activity against Phytophthora capsici in pepper

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Synergistic Inhibition of the Lethal Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: The Combined Effect of Symbiotic Bacterial Metabolites and Antimicrobial Peptides of the Frog Rana muscosa

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Antibiotics in early life alter the murine colonic microbiome and adiposity

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

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Microbial diversity determines the invasion of soil by a bacterial pathogen

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Social Immunity in Amphibians: Evidence for Vertical Transmission of Innate Defenses

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Structural diversity and species distribution of host-defense peptides in frog skin secretions

(2011) J. Michael Conlon   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

The potter’s wheel: the host’s role in sculpting its microbiota

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Beyond the Venn diagram: the hunt for a core microbiome

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

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The ebb and flow of antimicrobial skin peptides defends northern leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) against chytridiomycosis

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Skin microbiota: Microbial community structure and its potential association with health and disease

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Assessing the complex sponge microbiota: core, variable and species-specific bacterial communities in marine sponges

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Evidence for a core gut microbiota in the zebrafish

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

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Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

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Why bacteria matter in animal development and evolution

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

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QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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

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Delivery mode shapes the acquisition and structure of the initial microbiota across multiple body habitats in newborns

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Like Will to Like: Abundances of Closely Related Species Can Predict Susceptibility to Intestinal Colonization by Pathogenic and Commensal Bacteria

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

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Novel Features of the Polysaccharide-Digesting Gliding Bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae as Revealed by Genome Sequence Analysis

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

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Innate immunity and gut–microbe mutualism in Drosophila

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Targeting the Human Microbiome With Antibiotics, Probiotics, and Prebiotics: Gastroenterology Enters the Metagenomics Era

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Microbial community profiling for human microbiome projects: Tools, techniques, and challenges

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

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Inhibition of frog antimicrobial peptides by extracellular products of the bacterial pathogenAeromonas hydrophila

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The alyteserins: Two families of antimicrobial peptides from the skin secretions of the midwife toad Alytes obstetricans (Alytidae)

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The ecology and impact of chytridiomycosis: an emerging disease of amphibians

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

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Amphibian Chemical Defense: Antifungal Metabolites of the Microsymbiont Janthinobacterium lividum on the Salamander Plethodon cinereus

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Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

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