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SUBMITTER: Byrne AQ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6789904 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Byrne Allison Q AQ Vredenburg Vance T VT Martel An A Pasmans Frank F Bell Rayna C RC Blackburn David C DC Bletz Molly C MC Bosch Jaime J Briggs Cheryl J CJ Brown Rafe M RM Catenazzi Alessandro A Familiar López Mariel M Figueroa-Valenzuela Raul R Ghose Sonia L SL Jaeger Jef R JR Jani Andrea J AJ Jirku Miloslav M Knapp Roland A RA Muñoz Antonio A Portik Daniel M DM Richards-Zawacki Corinne L CL Rockney Heidi H Rovito Sean M SM Stark Tariq T Sulaeman Hasan H Tao Nguyen Thien NT Voyles Jamie J Waddle Anthony W AW Yuan Zhiyong Z Rosenblum Erica Bree EB
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20190923 41
Biodiversity loss is one major outcome of human-mediated ecosystem disturbance. One way that humans have triggered wildlife declines is by transporting disease-causing agents to remote areas of the world. Amphibians have been hit particularly hard by disease due in part to a globally distributed pathogenic chytrid fungus (<i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i> [<i>Bd</i>]). Prior research has revealed important insights into the biology and distribution of <i>Bd</i>; however, there are still many ...[more]