ArticleScientific reports2020
Skin microbiome correlates with bioclimate and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis infection intensity in Brazil's Atlantic Forest treefrogs.
Article in Scientific reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Differential skin-bacteriome-mediated defense against chytridiomycosis in two neotropical frog species.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Weathering the Storm: Legacies of Extreme Meteorological Events and Daily Weather Variability Shape the Skin Microbiota of the Endangered Golden Alpine SalamanderEcology and evolution · 2026Article
- Article
- Amphibian supercooling capacity is not limited to sub-zero thermal environments.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Differential Temporal Shifts in Skin Bacteria on Wild and Captive Toads.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Microbiome and climate: skin microbial diversity and community functions ofMicrobiology spectrum · 2025Article
- The impact of microbiome diversity and composition on host health and susceptibility to disease across amphibian life stages.Frontiers in amphibian and reptile science · 2025Article
- Host Species and Environment Shape the Skin Microbiota of Mexican Axolotls.Microbial ecology · 2024Article
- Nor climate nor human impact factors: Chytrid infection shapes the skin bacterial communities of an endemic amphibian in a biodiversity hotspot.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Framework for multi-stressor physiological response evaluation in amphibian risk assessment and conservation.Frontiers in ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Gene functions of theMicrobial genomics · 2024Article
- Family shapes microbiome differences in Oklahoma salamanders.Frontiers in microbiomes · 2024Article
- Host phylogeny and environment shape the diversity of salamander skin bacterial communities.Animal microbiome · 2023Article
- Climate change is not just global warming: Multidimensional impacts on animal gut microbiota.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Review
- Low microbiome diversity in threatened amphibians from two biodiversity hotspots.Animal microbiome · 2022Article
- Forgotten fungi: the importance of the skin mycobiome.Current opinion in microbiology · 2022Review
- Signatures of functional bacteriome structure in a tropical direct-developing amphibian species.Animal microbiome · 2022Article
- First line of defence: Skin microbiota may protect anurans from infective larval lungworms.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
12 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
In Brazil's Atlantic Forest (AF) biodiversity conservation is of key importance since the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has led to the rapid loss of amphibian populations here and worldwide. The impact of Bd on amphibians is determined by the host's immune system, of which the skin microbiome is a critical component. The richness and diversity of such cutaneous bacterial communities are known to be shaped by abiotic factors which thus may indirectly modulate host susceptibility to Bd. This study aimed to contribute to understanding the environment-host-pathogen interaction determining skin bacterial communities in 819 treefrogs (Anura: Hylidae and Phyllomedusidae) from 71 species sampled across the AF. We investigated whether abiotic factors influence the bacterial community richness and structure on the amphibian skin. We further tested for an association between skin bacterial community structure and Bd co-occurrence. Our data revealed that temperature, precipitation, and elevation consistently correlate with richness and diversity of the skin microbiome and also predict Bd infection status. Surprisingly, our data suggest a weak but significant positive correlation of Bd infection intensity and bacterial richness. We highlight the prospect of future experimental studies on the impact of changing environmental conditions associated with global change on environment-host-pathogen interactions in the AF.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.