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Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity
Scheele, Ben C.; Garner, Trenton W.J.; Weldon, Ché; Pasmans, Frank; Skerratt, Lee F. (AAAS, 2019)Rapid spread of disease is a hazard in our interconnected world. The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis was identified in amphibian populations about 20 years ago and has caused death and species extinction at ... -
Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impact, protocols for the isolation of amphibian chytrid fungi
Fisher, Matthew C.; Ghosh, Pria; Garner, Trenton W.J.; Verster, Ruhan; Weldon, Ché (Nature, 2018)Parasitic chytrid fungi have emerged as a significant threat to amphibian species worldwide, necessitating the development of techniques to isolate these pathogens into culture for research purposes. However, early ... -
Discussing the future of amphibians in research
Brod, Samuel; Garner, Trenton W.J.; Brookes, L. (Nature, 2019)Amphibians have been used as experimental organisms for centuries. Recent years have seen a renewed interest in amphibians as models of human development and disease and an urgent need to understand and mitigate the impacts ... -
Itraconazole and thiophanate-methyl fail to clear tadpoles naturally infected with the hypervirulent lineage of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Fernández-Loras, Andrés; Garner, Trenton W.J.; Martín-Beyer, Bárbara; Bosch, Jaime (Inter-Research, 2018)The emerging infectious disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, is a major driver pushing many amphibian species to the brink of extinction. Substantial efforts to develop effective ... -
Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycoses in nature
Garner, Trenton W.J.; Weldon, Ché; Schmidt, Benedikt R.; Martel, An; Pasmans, Frank (The Royal Society, 2016)Amphibians across the planet face the threat of population decline and extirpation caused by the disease chytridiomycosis. Despite consensus that the fungal pathogens responsible for the disease are conservation issues, ... -
Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines
O'Hanlon, Simon J.; Ghosh, Pria; Verster, Ruhan; Weldon, Ché; Garner, Trenton W.J. (AAAS, 2018)Globalized infectious diseases are causing species declines worldwide, but their source often remains elusive. We used whole-genome sequencing to solve the spatiotemporal origins of the most devastating panzootic to date, ...