The microbiome is known to provide benefits to hosts, including extension of immune
function. Amphibians are a powerful immunological model for examining mucosal defenses …

Anthropogenic habitat disturbance is fundamentally altering patterns of disease
transmission and immunity across the vertebrate tree of life. Most studies linking …

In the last decade, eDNA and metabarcoding have opened new avenues to biodiversity
studies; amphibians and reptiles are animals for which these new approaches have allowed …

Microorganisms are increasingly recognized as ecosystem-relevant components because
they affect the population dynamics of hosts. Functioning at the interface of the host and …

This review summarizes the role of environmental factors on amphibian microbiotas at the
organismal, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere levels. At the organismal …

Amphibians' gut and skin microbiota are vital for host health. Ulcers may affect the skin
microbiota, with unknown impacts on the gut microbiota. Skin diseases could influence both …

While a number of amphibian skin microbiomes have been characterized, it is unclear how
these communities might vary in response to seasonal changes in the environment and the …

A growing focus in microbial ecology is understanding how beneficial microbiome function is
created and maintained through various assembly mechanisms. This study explores the role …

Gut microbes and diet can both strongly affect the biology of multicellular animals, but it is
often difficult to disentangle microbiota–diet interactions due to the complex microbial …

Abstract In Brazil's Atlantic Forest (AF) biodiversity conservation is of key importance since
the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has led to the rapid loss of …