ArticlePeerJ2018
Skin bacterial diversity is higher on lizards than sympatric frogs in tropical Australia.
Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.
- Unravelling Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors Shaping the Rich Communities on Lizard Skin.Environmental microbiology reports · 2025Article
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- Virulence determinants and antibiotic resistance in staphylococci isolated from the skin of captive bred reptiles.Veterinary research communications · 2024Article
- The Epidermal Microbiome Within an Aggregation of Leopard Sharks (Triakis semifasciata) Has Taxonomic Flexibility with Gene Functional Stability Across Three Time-points.Microbial ecology · 2023Article
- Skin Microbiota Was Altered in Crocodile Lizards (Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
- First line of defence: Skin microbiota may protect anurans from infective larval lungworms.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2021Article
- The skin microbiome of Xenopus laevis and the effects of husbandry conditions.Animal microbiome · 2021Article
- New insights into SauropsidVirus evolution · 2019Review
- The Skin Microbiota ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Animal skin acts as a barrier between the organism and its environment and provides the first line of defense against invading pathogens. Thus, skin surfaces harbor communities of microbes that are interacting with both the host and its environment. Amphibian skin bacteria form distinct communities closely tied to their host species, but few studies have compared bacterial communities between amphibians and other, non-amphibian sympatric animals. Notably, skin microbes on reptiles have gained little attention. We used next-generation sequencing technology to describe bacterial communities on the skin of three lizard species and compared them to bacteria on six cohabiting frog species in the Northern Territory of Australia. We found bacterial communities had higher richness and diversity on lizards than frogs, with different community composition between reptiles and amphibians and among species. Core bacteria on the three lizard species overlapped by over 100 operational taxonomic units. The bacterial communities were similar within species of frogs and lizards, but the communities tended to be more similar between lizard species than between frog species and when comparing lizards with frogs. The diverse bacteria found on lizards invites further questions on how and how well reptiles interact with microorganisms through their scaly skin.
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