ArticleBMC ecology2018
Fungal infection has sublethal effects in a lowland subtropical amphibian population.
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- Field Survey of Freshwater Invertebrates Reveals That Several Groups Are Potential Carriers of the Fungal PathogenEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Differential Susceptibility May Not Drive Chytridiomycosis Related Declines in Multi-Host Amphibian Communities.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Intestinal Nematode Infection Confers a Benefit to a Non-Declining Frog Species, While a Fungal Parasitic Infection Has Sublethal Impacts on Reproductive Investment.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Landscape-scale drivers of spatial dynamics and genetic diversity in an emerging wildlife pathogen.Oecologia · 2024Article
- Amphibian infection tolerance to chytridiomycosis.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Evaluating environmental DNA as a tool for detecting an amphibian pathogen using an optimized extraction method.Oecologia · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), has been implicated as a primary cause of decline in many species around the globe. However, there are some species and populations that are known to become infected in the wild, yet declines have not been observed. Here we conducted a yearlong capture-mark-recapture study and a 2-year long disease monitoring study of northern cricket frogs, Acris crepitans, in the lowland subtropical forests of Louisiana.
resultsWe found little evidence for an impact of Bd infection on survival; however, Bd infection did appear to cause sublethal effects, including increased capture probability in the field.
conclusionsOur study suggests that even in apparently stable populations, where Bd does not appear to cause mortality, there may be sublethal effects of infection that can impact a host population's dynamics and structure. Understanding and documenting such sublethal effects of infection on wild, seemingly stable populations is important, particularly for predicting future population declines.
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