Role of Antimicrobial Peptides in Amphibian Defense Against Trematode Infection

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

Experimental warming drives a seasonal shift in the timing of host-parasite dynamics with consequences for disease risk

(2014) Sara H. Paull et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

The New Insight into the Role of Antimicrobial Proteins-Alarmins in the Immunopathogenesis of Psoriasis

(2014) A. Batycka-Baran et al.   Journal of Immunology Research

Evaluating the role of regional and local processes in structuring a larval trematode metacommunity ofHelisoma trivolvis

(2013) Katherine L. D. Richgels et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Larval exposure to predator cues alters immune function and response to a fungal pathogen in post-metamorphic wood frogs

(2013) Maya L. Groner et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Antimicrobial peptides isolated from Phyllomedusa nordestina (Amphibia) alter the permeability of plasma membrane of Leishmania and Trypanosoma cruzi

(2013) Erika Gracielle Pinto et al.   EXPERIMENTAL PARASITOLOGY

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

Macroparasite Infections of Amphibians: What Can They Tell Us?

(2012) Janet Koprivnikar et al.   EcoHealth

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

Overview on the recent study of antimicrobial peptides: Origins, functions, relative mechanisms and application

(2012) Yanmei Li et al.   PEPTIDES

Do Parasitic Trematode Cercariae Demonstrate a Preference for Susceptible Host Species?

(2012) Brittany F. Sears et al.   PLoS One

The complexity of amphibian population declines: understanding the role of cofactors in driving amphibian losses

(2011) Andrew R. Blaustein et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Norepinephrine depletion of antimicrobial peptides from the skin glands of Xenopus laevis

(2011) Whitney M. Gammill et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Critical windows of disease risk: amphibian pathology driven by developmental changes in host resistance and tolerance

(2011) Pieter T. J. Johnson et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Antibiotic proteins of polymorphonuclear leukocytes

(2010) Ofer Levy   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HAEMATOLOGY

Developmental variation in resistance and tolerance in a multi-host-parasite system

(2010) Jason R. Rohr et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Does the early frog catch the worm? Disentangling potential drivers of a parasite age–intensity relationship in tadpoles

(2010) Thomas R. Raffel et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Reflections on a systematic nomenclature for antimicrobial peptides from the skins of frogs of the family Ranidae

(2008) J. Michael Conlon   PEPTIDES