CHERYL BRIGGS

Summary

Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Mitigating amphibian disease: strategies to maintain wild populations and control chytridiomycosis
    Douglas C Woodhams
    Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
    Front Zool 8:8. 2011
  2. ncbi Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians
    Cheryl J Briggs
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9695-700. 2010
  3. ncbi Host suppression and stability in a parasitoid-host system: experimental demonstration
    William Murdoch
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
    Science 309:610-3. 2005
  4. ncbi Quantifying the disease transmission function: effects of density on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis transmission in the mountain yellow-legged frog Rana muscosa
    Lara J Rachowicz
    Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3140, USA
    J Anim Ecol 76:711-21. 2007
  5. ncbi Effect of temperature on host response to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in the mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa)
    Sara E Andre
    School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
    J Wildl Dis 44:716-20. 2008
  6. ncbi The ecology and impact of chytridiomycosis: an emerging disease of amphibians
    A Marm Kilpatrick
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
    Trends Ecol Evol 25:109-18. 2010
  7. ncbi Stabilizing effects in spatial parasitoid-host and predator-prey models: a review
    Cheryl J Briggs
    Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3140, USA
    Theor Popul Biol 65:299-315. 2004
  8. ncbi Population genetics of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
    Jess A T Morgan
    Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:13845-50. 2007
  9. ncbi Emerging infectious disease as a proximate cause of amphibian mass mortality
    Lara J Rachowicz
    Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3140, USA
    Ecology 87:1671-83. 2006
  10. ncbi Spatial dynamics of lyme disease: a review
    Mary E Killilea
    Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545 0129, USA
    Ecohealth 5:167-95. 2008

Research Grants

  1. Amphibian Disease Dynamics in a Fragmented Landscape
    CHERYL BRIGGS; Fiscal Year: 2006

Collaborators

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Publications11

  1. ncbi Mitigating amphibian disease: strategies to maintain wild populations and control chytridiomycosis
    Douglas C Woodhams
    Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
    Front Zool 8:8. 2011
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  2. ncbi Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians
    Cheryl J Briggs
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:9695-700. 2010
    ..The model also shows that persistence of Bd is enhanced by the long-lived tadpole stage that characterize these two frog species, and by nonhost Bd reservoirs...
  3. ncbi Host suppression and stability in a parasitoid-host system: experimental demonstration
    William Murdoch
    Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
    Science 309:610-3. 2005
    ..Stability in this biologically nondiverse agricultural system is a property of the local interaction between these two species, not of spatial processes or of the larger ecological community...
  4. ncbi Quantifying the disease transmission function: effects of density on Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis transmission in the mountain yellow-legged frog Rana muscosa
    Lara J Rachowicz
    Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3140, USA
    J Anim Ecol 76:711-21. 2007
    ..5. The impacts of crowding and temperature on transmission were also investigated; however, neither of these factors significantly affected the transmission rate...
  5. ncbi Effect of temperature on host response to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection in the mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa)
    Sara E Andre
    School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
    J Wildl Dis 44:716-20. 2008
    ..dendrobatidis, we propose that the difference in outcome indicates the effect of temperature on the host's resistance to chytridiomycosis, rather than an effect on the fungus alone...
  6. ncbi The ecology and impact of chytridiomycosis: an emerging disease of amphibians
    A Marm Kilpatrick
    Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
    Trends Ecol Evol 25:109-18. 2010
    ..Chytridiomycosis is an archetypal emerging disease, with a broad host range and significant impacts on host populations and, as such, poses a crucial challenge for wildlife managers and an urgent conservation concern...
  7. ncbi Stabilizing effects in spatial parasitoid-host and predator-prey models: a review
    Cheryl J Briggs
    Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 3140, USA
    Theor Popul Biol 65:299-315. 2004
    ..Persistence in spatially explicit models with local dispersal frequently associated with self-organized spatial patterning...
  8. ncbi Population genetics of the frog-killing fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
    Jess A T Morgan
    Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:13845-50. 2007
    ..Recombination raises the possibility of resistant sporangia and a mechanism for rapid spread as well as persistence that could greatly complicate global control of the pathogen...
  9. ncbi Emerging infectious disease as a proximate cause of amphibian mass mortality
    Lara J Rachowicz
    Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 3140, USA
    Ecology 87:1671-83. 2006
    ..muscosa, that this emerging disease is the proximate cause of numerous observed R. muscosa population declines, and that the disease threatens this species with extirpation at numerous sites in California's Sierra Nevada...
  10. ncbi Spatial dynamics of lyme disease: a review
    Mary E Killilea
    Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY 12545 0129, USA
    Ecohealth 5:167-95. 2008
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  11. ncbi Predators, parasitoids, and pathogens: a cross-cutting examination of intraguild predation theory
    Elizabeth T Borer
    Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
    Ecology 88:2681-8. 2007
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Research Grants5

  1. Amphibian Disease Dynamics in a Fragmented Landscape
    CHERYL BRIGGS; Fiscal Year: 2006
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