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SUBMITTER: Lips KR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1413869 | biostudies-other | 2006 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Lips Karen R KR Brem Forrest F Brenes Roberto R Reeve John D JD Alford Ross A RA Voyles Jamie J Carey Cynthia C Livo Lauren L Pessier Allan P AP Collins James P JP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060215 9
Pathogens rarely cause extinctions of host species, and there are few examples of a pathogen changing species richness and diversity of an ecological community by causing local extinctions across a wide range of species. We report the link between the rapid appearance of a pathogenic chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in an amphibian community at El Copé, Panama, and subsequent mass mortality and loss of amphibian biodiversity across eight families of frogs and salamanders. We describ ...[more]