A novel approach to wildlife transcriptomics provides evidence of disease-mediated differential expression and changes to the microbiome of amphibian populations

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Epidemic and endemic pathogen dynamics correspond to distinct host population microbiomes at a landscape scale

(2017) Andrea J. Jani et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The North American bullfrog draft genome provides insight into hormonal regulation of long noncoding RNA

(2017) S. Austin Hammond et al.   Nature Communications

Comprehensive Pan-Genomic Characterization of Adrenocortical Carcinoma

(2016) Siyuan Zheng et al.   CANCER CELL

Environmental fluctuations and host skin bacteria shift survival advantage between frogs and their fungal pathogen

(2016) Ana V Longo et al.   ISME Journal

Reconstructing the emergence of a lethal infectious disease of wildlife supports a key role for spread through translocations by humans

(2016) Stephen J. Price et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Heme-mediated apoptosis and fusion damage in BeWo trophoblast cells

(2016) Mingli Liu et al.   Scientific Reports

Capturing One of the Human Gut Microbiome’s Most Wanted: Reconstructing the Genome of a Novel Butyrate-Producing, Clostridial Scavenger from Metagenomic Sequence Data

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Co-Infection by Chytrid Fungus and Ranaviruses in Wild and Harvested Frogs in the Tropical Andes

(2016) Robin W. Warne et al.   PLoS One

Frog Virus 3 dissemination in the brain of tadpoles, but not in adult Xenopus, involves blood brain barrier dysfunction

(2016) Francisco De Jesús Andino et al.   Scientific Reports

Amphibian Symbiotic Bacteria Do Not Show a Universal Ability To Inhibit Growth of the Global Panzootic Lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

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Ten years of transcriptomics in wild populations: what have we learned about their ecology and evolution?

(2015) Mariano Alvarez et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evaluating environmental DNA-based quantification of ranavirus infection in wood frog populations

(2015) Emily M. Hall et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Ensembl 2016

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(2015) Christina N. Cordeiro et al.   OBSTETRICAL & GYNECOLOGICAL SURVEY

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(2015) Alexandra C. North et al.   PLoS One

Whole-genome sequence of the Tibetan frogNanorana parkeriand the comparative evolution of tetrapod genomes

(2015) Yan-Bo Sun et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

A de novo Assembly of the Common Frog (Rana temporaria) Transcriptome and Comparison of Transcription Following Exposure to Ranavirus and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

(2015) Stephen J. Price et al.   PLoS One

HTSeq--a Python framework to work with high-throughput sequencing data

(2014) S. Anders et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

BioBloom tools: fast, accurate and memory-efficient host species sequence screening using bloom filters

(2014) Justin Chu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Introduction of Ranavirus to Isolated Wood Frog Populations Could Cause Local Extinction

(2014) Julia E. Earl et al.   EcoHealth

More than Skin Deep: Functional Genomic Basis for Resistance to Amphibian Chytridiomycosis

(2014) Amy R. Ellison et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Amphibian skin may select for rare environmental microbes

(2014) Jenifer B Walke et al.   ISME Journal

The Amphibian (Xenopus laevis) Type I Interferon Response to Frog Virus 3: New Insight into Ranavirus Pathogenicity

(2014) L. Grayfer et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Abcb10 Role in Heme Biosynthesis In Vivo: Abcb10 Knockout in Mice Causes Anemia with Protoporphyrin IX and Iron Accumulation

(2014) M. Yamamoto et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOLOGY

Gene Ontology Consortium: going forward

(2014)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

UniProt: a hub for protein information

(2014)   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

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

(2014) Douglas C. Woodhams 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

Microbial Contamination in Next Generation Sequencing: Implications for Sequence-Based Analysis of Clinical Samples

(2014) Michael J. Strong et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Kraken: ultrafast metagenomic sequence classification using exact alignments

(2014) Derrick E Wood et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Infection and co-infection by the amphibian chytrid fungus and ranavirus in wild Costa Rican frogs

(2013) SM Whitfield et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Co-infection by alveolate parasites and frog virus 3-like ranavirus during an amphibian larval mortality event in Florida, USA

(2013) JH Landsberg et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Susceptibility of the European common frog Rana temporaria to a panel of ranavirus isolates from fish and amphibian hosts

(2013) AE Bayley et al.   DISEASES OF AQUATIC ORGANISMS

Identifying the World's Most Climate Change Vulnerable Species: A Systematic Trait-Based Assessment of all Birds, Amphibians and Corals

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phyloseq: An R Package for Reproducible Interactive Analysis and Graphics of Microbiome Census Data

(2013) Paul J. McMurdie et al.   PLoS One

A Long Noncoding RNA Mediates Both Activation and Repression of Immune Response Genes

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lncRNA expression signatures in response to enterovirus 71 infection

(2012) Zhixin Yin et al.   BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS

Toward understanding the genetic basis of adaptation to high-elevation life in poikilothermic species: A comparative transcriptomic analysis of two ranid frogs, Rana chensinensis and R. kukunoris

(2012) Weizhao Yang et al.   BMC GENOMICS

RNA-Seq and human complex diseases: recent accomplishments and future perspectives

(2012) Valerio Costa et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Dietary administration of the probiotic, Bacillus subtilis E20, enhances the growth, innate immune responses, and disease resistance of the grouper, Epinephelus coioides

(2012) Chun-Hung Liu et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Identification of Bacillus Strains for Biological Control of Catfish Pathogens

(2012) Chao Ran et al.   PLoS One

Susceptibility of Xenopus laevis tadpoles to infection by the ranavirus Frog-Virus 3 correlates with a reduced and delayed innate immune response in comparison with adult frogs

(2012) Francisco De Jesús Andino et al.   VIROLOGY

Immune Evasion Strategies of Ranaviruses and Innate Immune Responses to These Emerging Pathogens

(2012) Leon Grayfer et al.   Viruses-Basel

Phylogeny, Life History, and Ecology Contribute to Differences in Amphibian Susceptibility to Ranaviruses

(2011) Jason T. Hoverman et al.   EcoHealth

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(2011) Rachel E. Marschang   Viruses-Basel

Assessing the long-term impact of Ranavirus infection in wild common frog populations

(2010) A. G. F. Teacher et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Effects of Two Amphibian Pathogens on the Developmental Stability of Green Frogs

(2010) VALÉRIE ST-AMOUR et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Mortality Rates Differ Among Amphibian Populations Exposed to Three Strains of a Lethal Ranavirus

(2010) Danna M. Schock et al.   EcoHealth

Parasite diversity, patterns of MHC II variation and olfactory based mate choice in diverging three-spined stickleback ecotypes

(2010) Christophe Eizaguirre et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Escape from the pond: stress and developmental responses to ranavirus infection in wood frog tadpoles

(2010) Robin W. Warne et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Innate Immune Responses and Permissiveness to Ranavirus Infection of Peritoneal Leukocytes in the Frog Xenopus laevis

(2010) H. D. Morales et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

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(2010) Gordon Robertson et al.   NATURE METHODS

The Genome of the Western Clawed Frog Xenopus tropicalis

(2010) U. Hellsten et al.   SCIENCE

Unique Signatures of Long Noncoding RNA Expression in Response to Virus Infection and Altered Innate Immune Signaling

(2010) X. Peng et al.   mBio

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Effects of cytomegalovirus infection on embryogenesis and brain development

(2009) Yoshihiro Tsutsui   CONGENITAL ANOMALIES

Comparative and developmental study of the immune system inXenopus

(2009) Jacques Robert et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL DYNAMICS

Iridovirus infections in finfish - critical review with emphasis on ranaviruses

(2009) R J Whittington et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH DISEASES

Population genetic patterns suggest a behavioural change in wild common frogs (Rana temporaria) following disease outbreaks (Ranavirus)

(2009) AMBER G. F. TEACHER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Chromatin signature reveals over a thousand highly conserved large non-coding RNAs in mammals

(2009) Mitchell Guttman et al.   NATURE

Evidence for Directional Selection at a Novel Major Histocompatibility Class I Marker in Wild Common Frogs (Rana temporaria) Exposed to a Viral Pathogen (Ranavirus)

(2009) Amber G. F. Teacher et al.   PLoS One

Transcriptional response of Mexican axolotls to Ambystoma tigrinum virus (ATV) infection

(2008) Jennifer D Cotter et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Studies on Bacillus subtilis and Lactobacillus acidophilus, as potential probiotics, on the immune response and resistance of Tilapia nilotica (Oreochromis niloticus) to challenge infections

(2008) Salah Mesalhy Aly et al.   FISH & SHELLFISH IMMUNOLOGY

Non-coding RNAs revealed during identification of genes involved in chicken immune responses

(2008) Marie-Laure Endale Ahanda et al.   IMMUNOGENETICS

Geographically variable selection inAmbystoma tigrinumvirus (Iridoviridae) throughout the western USA

(2008) B. J. RIDENHOUR et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Concurrent Infection with Ranavirus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, and Aeromonas in a Captive Anuran Colony

(2008) Debra L. Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOO AND WILDLIFE MEDICINE

RNA-Seq: a revolutionary tool for transcriptomics

(2008) Zhong Wang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Assessing the gene space in draft genomes

(2008) Genis Parra et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians

(2008) D. B. Wake et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA