Amphibian skin is a mucosal surface in direct and continuous contact with a microbially
diverse and laden aquatic and/or terrestrial environment. As such, frog skin is an important …

Understanding the emergence of pathogenic viruses has dominated studies of virus
evolution. However, new metagenomic studies imply that relatively few of an immense …

This practical manual of amphibian ecology and conservation brings together a
distinguished, international group of amphibian researchers to provide a state-of-the-art …

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 …

Mass mortality of amphibians has occurred globally since at least the early 1990s from viral
pathogens that are members of the genus Ranavirus, family Iridoviridae. The pathogen …

For over 350 million yr, thousands of amphibian species have lived on Earth. Since the
1980s, amphibians have been disappearing at an alarming rate, in many cases quite …

Ranaviruses are capable of infecting amphibians from at least 14 families and over 70
individual species. Ranaviruses infect multiple cell types, often culminating in organ …

Viruses in three genera of the family Iridoviridae (iridoviruses) affect finfish. Ranaviruses and
megalocytiviruses are recently emerged pathogens. Both cause severe systemic disease …

Members of the family Iridoviridae infect a diverse array of invertebrate and cold-blooded
vertebrate hosts and are currently viewed as emerging pathogens of fish and amphibians …

Research that identifies the potential host range of generalist pathogens as well as variation
in host susceptibility is critical for understanding and predicting the dynamics of infectious …