During the ongoing biodiversity crisis, captive conservation and breeding programs offer a
refuge for species to persist and provide source populations for reintroduction efforts …

The integration of research from developmental biology and ecology into evolutionary theory
has given rise to a relatively new field, ecological evolutionary developmental biology (Eco …

Covering: through 2014 Many organisms team up with microbes for defense against
predators, parasites, parasitoids, or pathogens. Here we review the described protective …

Symbiotic microbial communities may interact with infectious pathogens sharing a common
host. The microbiome may limit pathogen infection or, conversely, an invading pathogen can …

Probiotic therapy through bioaugmentation is a feasible disease mitigation strategy based
on growing evidence that microbes contribute to host defences of plants and animals …

Beneficial cutaneous bacteria on amphibians can protect against the lethal disease
chytridiomycosis, which has devastated many amphibian species and is caused by the …

Chromobacterium violaceum is important in the production of violacein, like other bacteria,
such as Alteromonas, Janthinobacterium, Pseudoalteromonas, Duganella, Collimonas and …

Environmental temperature and gut microbial communities can both have profound impacts
on the digestive performance of ectothermic vertebrates. Additionally, the diversity …

Here we review the knowledge about skin microbiomes in amphibians accumulated over the
last two decades and the evidence regarding the protective role of skin bacteria. Amphibians …

Host-associated microbiomes perform many beneficial functions including resisting
pathogens and training the immune system. Here, we show that amphibians developing in …