ArticleEcoHealth2013
Fitness consequences of infection by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in northern leopard frogs (Lithobates pipiens).
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- Immune activation affects whole-organism performance in male but not female green anole lizards (Anolis carolinensis).Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2021Article
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- Interaction between temperature and sublethal infection with the amphibian chytrid fungus impacts a susceptible frog species.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Predicting the Future: Parental Progeny Investment in Response to Environmental Stress Cues.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2019Review
- Fungal infection has sublethal effects in a lowland subtropical amphibian population.BMC ecology · 2018Article
- Follow-up ecological studies for cryptic species discoveries: Decrypting the leopard frogs of the eastern U.S.PloS one · 2018Article
- Amphibian species traits, evolutionary history and environment predictEvolutionary applications · 2017Article
- Amphibians with infectious disease increase their reproductive effort: evidence for the terminal investment hypothesis.Open biology · 2016Article
- Enhanced call effort in Japanese tree frogs infected by amphibian chytrid fungus.Biology letters · 2016Article
- Condition-dependent reproductive effort in frogs infected by a widespread pathogen.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), has been linked to amphibian declines and extinctions worldwide. The pathogen has been found on amphibians throughout eastern North America, but has not been associated with mass die-offs in this region. In this study, we conducted laboratory experiments on the effects of Bd infection in a putative carrier species, Lithobates pipiens, using two estimators of fitness: jumping performance and testes morphology. Over the 8-week study period, peak acceleration during jumping was not significantly different between infected and uninfected animals. Peak velocity, however, was significantly lower for infected animals after 8 weeks. Two measures of sperm production, germinal epithelium depth, and maximum spermatic cyst diameter, showed no difference between infected and uninfected animals. The width, but not length, of testes of infected animals was significantly greater than in uninfected animals. This study is the first to show effects on whole-organism performance of Bd infection in post-metamorphic amphibians, and may have important long-term, evolutionary implications for amphibian populations co-existing with Bd infection.
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