Immune function in tree frogs with chytridiomycosis
Defects in host immune function in tree frogs with chronic chytridiomycosis
... systemic immune function in ...of frogs with severe chytridiomycosis had concurrent acute secondary infectious diseases ...systemic immune suppression is not generalized and distinct ...
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Distribution of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and pathology in the skin of green tree frogs Litoria caerulea with severe chytridiomycosis
... of chytridiomycosis in live and dead amphibians, there are no quantitative data on the distribution of the causative fungus, Batra- chochytrium dendrobatidis, in the ...green tree frogs Litoria ...
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The ecology of chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease of Australian rainforest frogs
... host immune function and behaviour may also alter host-pathogen ...peptide immune defences were more effective in common species (Litoria lesueuri, Litoria genimaculata, Mixophyes shevilli) and less ...
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Data Descriptor: Survival, gene and metabolite responses of Litoria verreauxii alpina frogs to fungal disease chytridiomycosis
... disease chytridiomycosis has caused the devastating decline and extinction of hundreds of amphibian species globally, yet the potential for evolving resistance, and the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms ...
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Epidermal cell death in frogs with chytridiomycosis
... effective immune response or pathology of ...useful immune response, we predict that animals that cleared infection would have higher rates initially or at the time of Bd ...
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Chytridiomycosis in frogs of Mount Gede-Pangrango, Indonesia
... survey, frogs with clinical signs of chytridiomycosis such as abnormal posture or behavior (Berger et ...Javanese tree frog, was usually found 1 to 2 m above the ground, often near the stream, ...
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Ecology of microhylid frogs in the Australian Wet Tropics and implications for their vulnerability to chytridiomycosis
... Innate immune defenses in the form of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) may be particularly important in providing resistance to chytridiomycosis, and highly effective AMPs could be responsible for the ...
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Ecology of microhylid frogs in the Australian Wet Tropics and implications for their vulnerability to chytridiomycosis
... Innate immune defenses in the form of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) may be particularly important in providing resistance to chytridiomycosis, and highly effective AMPs could be responsible for the ...
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Skin peptides protect juvenile leopard frogs (Rana pipiens) against chytridiomycosis
... SUMMARY One issue of great concern for the scientific community is the continuing loss of diverse amphibian species on a global scale. Amphibian populations around the world are experiencing serious losses due to the ...
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Review of the Amphibian Immune Response to Chytridiomycosis, and Future Directions
... Adaptive Immune Response Initial activation of the adaptive immune system involves the detection of pathogen-derived antigens by binding to PRRs expressed by host ...professional immune cells such as ...
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Comparative and functional analysis of the digital mucus glands and secretions of tree frogs
... Conclusions Despite a variety of functions related to physiological pro- cesses and to attachment, anuran mucus glands and their secretions have received relatively little attention in previ- ous research. To our ...
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Power output of sound producing muscles in the tree frogs Hyla versicolor and Hyla chrysoscelis
... vivo function of the external oblique muscles (Girgenrath and Marsh, 1997) and allowed us to compare the optimal values for variables yielding maximum power output measured in vitro with those seen in ...
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Estimating Herd Immunity to Amphibian Chytridiomycosis in Madagascar Based on the Defensive Function of Amphibian Skin Bacteria
... Bd-Inhibitory Function Bd inhibition by bacterial isolates derived from the skin of Malagasy amphibians was widespread across the bacterial phylogenetic tree, but mean inhibition was weakly correlated with ...
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Epidemiology of chytridiomycosis in rainforest stream tadpoles
... adult frogs may make them a good life stage to investigate the presence of an acquired immune response to Bd, as prolonged sublethal exposure to the pathogen could provide the time needed for an ...
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Thermal thresholds in the amphibian disease chytridiomycosis
... frog immune responses after temperature shifts (increases and ...Cold-acclimated frogs treated with a dose of Bd and a temperature increase had active immune systems before and after ...
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Epidermal epidemic: unravelling the pathogenesis of chytridiomycosis
... for frogs infected with Bd , the increase in transporter numbers in the skin post-sloughing was sufficient to restore active Na + uptake ( I SC ), albeit ...skin function by both exposing relatively ...
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Frogs (Coqui Frogs, Greenhouse Frogs, Cuban Tree Frogs, and Cane Toads)
... Cuban tree frogs prefer a more natural hiding place over a PVC pipe refuge, at least in an experimental setting (Hoffmann et ...Cuban tree frogs might compete for food with native ...Cuban ...
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Behaviour of Australian rainforest stream frogs may affect the transmission of chytridiomycosis
... disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, has been implicated in mass mortalities, population declines and extinctions of amphibians around the ...to chytridiomycosis ...
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Spread of Chytridiomycosis Has Caused the Rapid Global Decline and Extinction of Frogs
... 2004). Chytridiomycosis in Western Australia was detected south of Perth in mid-1985 (612 earlier samples tested negative) and subsequently appeared to spread in all directions (Australian Government Department of ...
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Feeding kinematics of phyllomedusine tree frogs
... patterns that are typical of frogs with independently derived, highly protrusible tongues. We also investigated the method of control in the timing of tongue and jaw movements for feeding sequences of P. ...
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