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

American Bullfrogs (Lithobates catesbeianus) Resist Infection by Multiple Isolates of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Including One Implicated in Wild Mass Mortality

(2015) Evan A. Eskew et al.   EcoHealth

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

(2015) Douglas C. Woodhams et al.   ECOLOGY

Linking genetic and environmental factors in amphibian disease risk

(2015) Anna E. Savage et al.   Evolutionary Applications

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

(2015) Matthew H. Becker et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

(2015) M. H. Becker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Amphibian skin may select for rare environmental microbes

(2014) Jenifer B Walke et al.   ISME Journal

Stability of Microbiota Facilitated by Host Immune Regulation: Informing Probiotic Strategies to Manage Amphibian Disease

(2014) Denise Küng et al.   PLoS One

Ex situ Diet Influences the Bacterial Community Associated with the Skin of Red-Eyed Tree Frogs (Agalychnis callidryas)

(2014) Rachael E. Antwis et al.   PLoS One

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

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

Impact of Plant Cover on Fitness and Behavioural Traits of Captive Red-Eyed Tree Frogs (Agalychnis callidryas)

(2014) Christopher J. Michaels et al.   PLoS One

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

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

(2014) S. L. Pimm et al.   SCIENCE

Experimental Evidence for American Bullfrog (Lithobates catesbeianus) Susceptibility to Chytrid Fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis)

(2013) Stephanie S. Gervasi et al.   EcoHealth

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

(2013) Andrew H Loudon et al.   ISME Journal

Several scales of biodiversity affect ecosystem multifunctionality

(2013) J. R. Pasari et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Early microbial and metabolomic signatures predict later onset of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm infants

(2013) Ardythe L Morrow et al.   Microbiome

Manipulating the soil microbiome to increase soil health and plant fertility

(2012) Jacqueline M. Chaparro et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Tolerance of fungal infection in European water frogs exposed to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis after experimental reduction of innate immune defenses

(2012) Douglas C Woodhams et al.   BMC Veterinary Research

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

(2012) Matthew H. Becker et al.   EcoHealth

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

(2012) Nicholas A Bokulich et al.   NATURE METHODS

Microbial diversity determines the invasion of soil by a bacterial pathogen

(2012) J. D. van Elsas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Systematic Review of Intestinal Microbiota Transplantation (Fecal Bacteriotherapy) for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

(2011) Ethan Gough et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Host defense peptides in skin secretions of the Oregon spotted frog Rana pretiosa: Implications for species resistance to chytridiomycosis

(2011) J. Michael Conlon et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

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

(2011) Mariana Rosenthal et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

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

(2011) Valerie J McKenzie et al.   ISME Journal

Validation of Diagnostic Tests in Wildlife: The Case of Chytridiomycosis in Wild Amphibians

(2011) Lee F. Skerratt et al.   JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

Function-specific response to depletion of microbial diversity

(2010) Hannes Peter et al.   ISME Journal

From Structure to Function: the Ecology of Host-Associated Microbial Communities

(2010) C. J. Robinson et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Cutaneous Bacteria of the Redback Salamander Prevent Morbidity Associated with a Lethal Disease

(2010) Matthew H. Becker et al.   PLoS One

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rooting theories of plant community ecology in microbial interactions

(2010) James D. Bever et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

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

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

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

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

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

(2009) Reid N Harris et al.   ISME Journal

Widespread occurrence of the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in the southeastern USA

(2008) BB Rothermel et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

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

(2008) RN Harris et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

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

Predominant Role of Host Genetics in Controlling the Composition of Gut Microbiota

(2008) Zaruhi A. Khachatryan et al.   PLoS One