ArticleMicrobial ecology2018
Skin Bacterial Community Reorganization Following Metamorphosis of the Fire-Bellied Toad (Bombina orientalis).
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- Environmental factors and host sex influence the skin microbiota structure of Hong Kong newt (Paramesotriton hongkongensis) in a coldspot of chytridiomycosis in subtropical East Asia.Integrative zoology · 2025Article
- Ontogeny drives shifts in skin bacterial communities in facultatively paedomorphic salamanders.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2023Article
- Life stage and proximity to roads shape the skin microbiota of eastern newts (Notophthalmus viridescens).Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
- Chytridiomycosis in Asian Amphibians, a Global Resource forJournal of the Indian Institute of Science · 2021Review
- Skin microbiome correlates with bioclimate and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection intensity in Brazil's Atlantic Forest treefrogs.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Cross-Disciplinary Genomics Approaches to Studying Emerging Fungal Infections.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
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- Tadpole body size and behaviour alter the social acquisition of a defensive bacterial symbiont.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Hemogregarine and Rickettsial infection in ticks of toads from northeastern Colombia.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2018Article
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Abstract
In organisms with complex life histories, dramatic changes in microbial community structure may occur with host development and immune system maturation. Amphibian host susceptibility to diseases such as chytridiomycosis may be affected by the reorganization of skin microbial community structure that occurs during metamorphosis. We tracked changes in the bacterial communities inhabiting skin of Korean fire-bellied toads (Bombina orientalis) that we infected as tadpoles with different strains of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), the pathogenic fungus that causes chytridiomycosis. We found that B. orientalis undergoes a major change in skin bacterial community composition between 5 and 15 days following metamorphosis. Richness indices and phylogenetic diversity measures began to diverge earlier, between aquatic and terrestrial stages. Our results further reveal differences in skin bacterial community composition among infection groups, suggesting that the effect of Bd infection on skin microbiome composition may differ by Bd strain. Additional studies are needed to further investigate the structural and temporal dynamics of microbiome shifts during metamorphosis in wild and captive amphibian populations. Analyses of the ontogeny of microbiome shifts may contribute to an understanding of why amphibians vary in their susceptibility to chytridiomycosis.
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