Threats posed by the fungal kingdom to humans, wildlife, and agriculture

MC Fisher, SJ Gurr, CA Cuomo, DS Blehert, H Jin… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
The fungal kingdom includes at least 6 million eukaryotic species and is remarkable with
respect to its profound impact on global health, biodiversity, ecology, agriculture …

Chytrid fungi and global amphibian declines

MC Fisher, TWJ Garner - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Discovering that chytrid fungi cause chytridiomycosis in amphibians represented a paradigm
shift in our understanding of how emerging infectious diseases contribute to global patterns …

Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity

BC Scheele, F Pasmans, LF Skerratt, L Berger… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the
spread of diseases that threaten Earth's biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative …

One Health, emerging infectious diseases and wildlife: two decades of progress?

AA Cunningham, P Daszak… - … Transactions of the …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Infectious diseases affect people, domestic animals and wildlife alike, with many pathogens
being able to infect multiple species. Fifty years ago, following the wide-scale manufacture …

The fungal tree of life: from molecular systematics to genome‐scale phylogenies

JW Spatafora, MC Aime, IV Grigoriev… - The fungal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In 1996 the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was published and marked the beginning
of a new era in fungal biology (1). Since then, rapid advancements in both sequencing …

Fungal infections in animals: a patchwork of different situations

S Seyedmousavi, SMG Bosco, S De Hoog… - Medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The importance of fungal infections in both human and animals has increased over the last
decades. This article represents an overview of the different categories of fungal infections …

Quantitative evidence for the effects of multiple drivers on continental-scale amphibian declines

EHC Grant, DAW Miller, BR Schmidt, MJ Adams… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Since amphibian declines were first proposed as a global phenomenon over a quarter
century ago, the conservation community has made little progress in halting or reversing …

Pathogen spillover during land conversion

CL Faust, HI McCallum, LSP Bloomfield… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pathogen spillover from wildlife to domestic animals and humans, and the reverse, has
caused significant epidemics and pandemics worldwide. Although pathogen emergence …

An emerging disease causes regional population collapse of a common North American bat species

WF Frick, JF Pollock, AC Hicks, KE Langwig… - Science, 2010 - science.org
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emerging disease affecting hibernating bats in eastern
North America that causes mass mortality and precipitous population declines in winter …

Snake fungal disease: an emerging threat to wild snakes

JM Lorch, S Knowles, JS Lankton… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since 2006, there has been a marked increase in the number of reports of severe and often
fatal fungal skin infections in wild snakes in the eastern USA. The emerging condition …