Environment is associated with chytrid infection and skin microbiome richness on an amphibian rich island (Taiwan)

Environment is associated with chytrid infection and skin microbiome richness on an amphibian rich island (Taiwan)

Abstract Growing evidence suggests that the origins of the panzootic amphibian pathogens Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal) are in Asia. In Taiwan, an island hotspot of high amphibian diversity, no amphibian mass mortality events linked to Bd or Bsal hav...

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Main Authors: Dirk S. Schmeller, Tina Cheng, Jennifer Shelton, Chun-Fu Lin, Alan Chan-Alvarado, Adriana Bernardo-Cravo, Luca Zoccarato, Tzung-Su Ding, Yu-Pin Lin, Andrea Swei, Matthew C. Fisher, Vance T. Vredenburg, Adeline Loyau
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20547-3

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20547-3

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