Nature Communications (Feb 2018)

Amphibian chytridiomycosis outbreak dynamics are linked with host skin bacterial community structure

  • Kieran A. Bates,
  • Frances C. Clare,
  • Simon O’Hanlon,
  • Jaime Bosch,
  • Lola Brookes,
  • Kevin Hopkins,
  • Emilia J. McLaughlin,
  • Olivia Daniel,
  • Trenton W. J. Garner,
  • Matthew C. Fisher,
  • Xavier A. Harrison

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-02967-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Amphibian skin microbe communities have been putatively associated with the severity of chytrid fungal disease. Here, the authors show that different types of disease dynamics (enzootic versus epizootic) are associated with different microbiota in the host populations.