ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2020
Salinity stress increases the severity of ranavirus epidemics in amphibian populations.
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- Linking microbiome and stress hormone responses in wild tropical treefrogs across continuous and fragmented forests.Communications biology · 2023Article
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- Ranavirus Amplification in Low-Diversity Amphibian Communities.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2022Article
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- Evaluating corticosterone as a biomarker for amphibians exposed to increased salinity and ambient corticosterone.Conservation physiology · 2021Article
- Salinity stress increases the severity of ranavirus epidemics in amphibian populations.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
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Abstract
The stress-induced susceptibility hypothesis, which predicts chronic stress weakens immune defences, was proposed to explain increasing infectious disease-related mass mortality and population declines. Previous work characterized wetland salinization as a chronic stressor to larval amphibian populations. Thus, we combined field observations with experimental exposures quantifying epidemiological parameters to test the role of salinity stress in the occurrence of ranavirus-associated mass mortality events. Despite ubiquitous pathogen presence (94%), populations exposed to salt runoff had slightly more frequent ranavirus related mass mortality events, more lethal infections, and 117-times greater pathogen environmental DNA. Experimental exposure to chronic elevated salinity (0.8-1.6 g l
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