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 …

With great apprehension, the world is now watching the birth of a novel pandemic already
causing tremendous suffering, death, and disruption of normal life. Uncertainty and dread …

Anthropogenic trade and development have broken down dispersal barriers, facilitating the
spread of diseases that threaten Earth's biodiversity. We present a global, quantitative …

The global emergence and spread of the pathogenic, virulent, and highly transmissible
fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, resulting in the disease chytridiomycosis, has …

The pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), which causes the skin disease
chytridiomycosis, is one of the few highly virulent fungi in vertebrates and has been …

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is a chytrid fungus that causes chytridiomycosis in
amphibians. Only named in 1999, Bd is a proximate driver of declines in global amphibian …

Recent increases in the magnitude and rate of environmental change, including habitat loss,
climate change and overexploitation, have been directly linked to the global loss of …

Global amphibian declines are linked with the presence of specific, highly virulent
genotypes of the emerging fungal disease chytridiomycosis caused by Batrachochytrium …

For over 350 million years, thousands of species of amphibians have lived on earth, but
since the 1990s they have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …

Despite awareness that disease emergence may be related to ecological change, few
studies have rigorously analyzed the underlying environmental drivers of the dynamics of …