ArticleAnimal microbiome2022
Low microbiome diversity in threatened amphibians from two biodiversity hotspots.
Article in Animal microbiome, 2022. 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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- Physiological and Skin Microbiome Divergence Among Closely Related Anurans Co-Occurring in Agricultural Wetlands.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Phylosymbiosis and Parallel Geographical Patterns in the Gut Microbiota of Desert-Dwelling Amphibians and Reptiles.Integrative zoology · 2026Article
- The gut microbiota of three avian species living in sympatry.BMC ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Microbial diversity in mountain-dwelling amphibians: The combined effects of host and climatic factors.iScience · 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
- When the host's away, the pathogen will play: the protective role of the skin microbiome during hibernation.Animal microbiome · 2023Review
- Unlocking secrets of microbial ecotoxicology: recent achievements and future challenges.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Review
- The adaptive microbiome hypothesis and immune interactions in amphibian mucus.Developmental and comparative immunology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Microbial diversity positively influences community resilience of the host microbiome. However, extinction risk factors such as habitat specialization, narrow environmental tolerances, and exposure to anthropogenic disturbance may homogenize host-associated microbial communities critical for stress responses including disease defense. In a dataset containing 43 threatened and 90 non-threatened amphibian species across two biodiversity hotspots (Brazil's Atlantic Forest and Madagascar), we found that threatened host species carried lower skin bacterial diversity, after accounting for key environmental and host factors. The consistency of our findings across continents suggests the broad scale at which low bacteriome diversity may compromise pathogen defenses in species already burdened with the threat of extinction.
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