Mitigating amphibian disease: strategies to maintain wild populations and control chytridiomycosisDouglas 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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Pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis, a cause of catastrophic amphibian declinesJamie Voyles
School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, Amphibian Disease Ecology Group, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
Science 326:582-5. 2009
..Because the skin is critical in maintaining amphibian homeostasis, disruption to cutaneous function may be the mechanism by which Bd produces morbidity and mortality across a wide range of phylogenetically distant amphibian taxa...
- Interactions between Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and its amphibian hosts: a review of pathogenesis and immunity
Jamie Voyles
School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, Amphibian Disease Ecology Group, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Microbes Infect 13:25-32. 2011
..This review provides a summary of host characteristics, pathogen characteristics and host-pathogen responses to infection that are important for understanding disease development...
- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: requirement for further isolate collection and archiving
Jamie Voyles
School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, Amphibian Disease Ecology Group, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Dis Aquat Organ 92:109-12. 2010
..We suggest the creation of a centralized database of isolate information, and we urge researchers and managers to isolate and archive Bd to facilitate future research on chytridiomycosis...
Electrolyte depletion and osmotic imbalance in amphibians with chytridiomycosisJamie Voyles
Amphibian Disease Ecology Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Dis Aquat Organ 77:113-8. 2007
..dendrobatidis. Understanding the mechanisms of mortality may also explain interspecific variation in susceptibility to chytridiomycosis...
- Treatment of chytridiomycosis requires urgent clinical trials
Lee Berger
Amphibian Disease Ecology Group, School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia
Dis Aquat Organ 92:165-74. 2010
..Priorities are to validate and optimize the use of heat and itraconazole regimes...
- Temperature alters reproductive life history patterns in Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a lethal pathogen associated with the global loss of amphibians
Jamie Voyles
Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California Berkeley Berkeley, California, 94720 3144, USA School of Public Health, Tropical Medicine and Rehabilitation Sciences, Amphibian Disease Ecology Group, James Cook University Townsville, Queensland, 4811, Australia
Ecol Evol 2:2241-9. 2012
..We also suggest that the adaptive responses of Bd to thermal conditions warrant further investigation, especially in the face of global climate change...
- Chytridiomycosis and amphibian population declines continue to spread eastward in Panama
Douglas C Woodhams
Institute of Zoology, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Ecohealth 5:268-74. 2008
..Therefore, development of new management strategies and increased precautions for tourism, recreation, and biology are urgently needed...
