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ArticleMicrobial ecology2021

Bacterial Community in the Skin Microbiome of Frogs in a Coldspot of Chytridiomycosis Infection.

Milind C Mutnale, Gundlapally S Reddy, Karthikeyan Vasudevan

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Article in Microbial ecology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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10 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Milind C MutnaleLaboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2645-3908
Gundlapally S ReddyLaboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
Karthikeyan VasudevanLaboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. karthik@ccmb.res.in.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2316-3382
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology · IN

Funding

Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India BSC0207
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chytridiomycosis is a fungal disease caused by the pathogens, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) and B. salamandrivorans (Bsal), which has caused declines in amphibian populations worldwide. Asia is considered as a coldspot of infection, since adult frogs are less susceptible to Bd-induced mortality or morbidity. Using the next-generation sequencing approach, we assessed the cutaneous bacterial community composition and presence of anti-Bd bacteria in six frog species from India using DNA isolated from skin swabs. All the six frog species sampled were tested using nested PCR and found Bd negative. We found a total of 551 OTUs on frog skin, of which the bacterial phyla such as Proteobacteria (56.15% average relative abundance) was dominated followed by Actinobacteria (21.98% average relative abundance) and Firmicutes (13.7% average relative abundance). The contribution of Proteobacteria in the anti-Bd community was highest and represented by 175 OTUs. Overall, the anti-Bd bacterial community dominated (51.7% anti-Bd OTUs) the skin microbiome of the frogs. The study highlights the putative role of frog skin microbiome in affording resistance to Bd infections in coldspots of infection.

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ChytridiomycotaMicrobiotaMycosesAnimalsAnuraBacteriaSkin454 next-generation sequencingAmphibiaAnti-Bd bacteriaEndemic frogsProteobacteriaSkin microbiome

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PMCPMC8384794
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