Mechanisms underlying host persistence following amphibian disease emergence determine appropriate management strategies

LA Brannelly, HI McCallum, LF Grogan… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Emerging infectious diseases have caused many species declines, changes in communities
and even extinctions. There are also many species that persist following devastating …

Impacts of rising temperatures and water acidification on the oxidative status and immune system of aquatic ectothermic vertebrates: A meta-analysis

S Messina, D Costantini, M Eens - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Species persistence in the Anthropocene is dramatically threatened by global climate
change. Large emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2) from human activities are driving …

Diversity in growth patterns among strains of the lethal fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis across extended thermal optima

J Voyles, LR Johnson, J Rohr, R Kelly, C Barron… - Oecologia, 2017 - Springer
The thermal sensitivities of organisms regulate a wide range of ecological interactions,
including host–parasite dynamics. The effect of temperature on disease ecology can be …

Lizards paid a greater opportunity cost to thermoregulate in a less heterogeneous environment

CH Basson, O Levy, MJ Angilletta Jr… - Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The theory of thermoregulation has developed slowly, hampering efforts to predict how
individuals can buffer climate change through behaviour. Mixed results of field and …

Effects of moderate-versus high-intensity swimming training on inflammatory and CD4+ T cell subset profiles in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis mice

Y Xie, Z Li, Y Wang, X Xue, W Ma, Y Zhang… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory neurodegenerative disease of the central nervous
system (CNS). Evidence about experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), a …

Eco-immunology in the cold: the role of immunity in shaping the overwintering survival of ectotherms

LV Ferguson, R Kortet… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - journals.biologists.com
The effect of temperature on physiology mediates many of the challenges that ectotherms
face under climate change. Ectotherm immunity is thermally sensitive and, as such …

From marine metabolites to the drugs of the future: Squalamine, trodusquemine, their steroid and triterpene analogues

O Kazakova, G Giniyatullina, D Babkov… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
This review comprehensively describes the recent advances in the synthesis and
pharmacological evaluation of steroid polyamines squalamine, trodusquemine, ceragenins …

[HTML][HTML] Thermal sensitivity of innate immune response in three species of Rhinella toads

EH Moretti, SCM Titon, BT Junior, FS Marques… - … and Physiology Part A …, 2019 - Elsevier
Immune activity is temperature-dependent and strongly related to thermal biology in
ectotherms. Eurythermic, vs stenothermic, species commonly show a broader range of …

The influence of temperature on chytridiomycosis in vivo

JM Sonn, S Berman, CL Richards-Zawacki - EcoHealth, 2017 - Springer
Chytridiomycosis, an amphibian disease caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium
dendrobatidis (Bd), is an ideal system for studying the influence of temperature on host …

Climate warming has divergent physiological impacts on sympatric lizards

Z Ding, X Wang, T Zou, X Hao, Q Zhang, B Sun… - Science of The Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate warming is expected to affect the vulnerability of sympatric species differentially due
to their divergent traits, but the underlying physiological mechanisms of those impacts are …