Background Rescuing amphibian diversity is an achievable conservation challenge.
Disease mitigation is one essential component of population management. Here we assess …

Climate change probably has severe impacts on animal populations, but demonstrating a
causal link can be difficult because of potential influences by additional factors. Assessing …

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

Recently, microbiologists have focused on characterizing the probiotic role of skin bacteria
for amphibians threatened by the fungal disease chytridiomycosis. However, the specific …

Hybridization of parasites can generate new genotypes with high virulence. The fungal
amphibian parasite Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) hybridizes in Brazil's Atlantic …

In the Neotropics, almost every species of the stream-dwelling harlequin toads (genus
Atelopus) have experienced catastrophic declines. The persistence of lowland species of …

Host‐associated bacterial communities on the skin act as the first line of defence against
invading pathogens. Yet, for most natural systems, we lack a clear understanding of how …

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is commonly termed the 'amphibian chytrid fungus' but
thus far has been documented to be a pathogen of only batrachian amphibians (anurans …

Naive multi-host communities include species that may differentially maintain, transmit and
amplify novel pathogens; therefore, we expect species to fill distinct roles during infectious …

Host-associated microbial communities are ubiquitous among animals, and serve important
functions. For example, the bacterial skin microbiome of amphibians can play a role in …