Historical Evidence of Widespread Chytrid Infection in North American Amphibian Populations

By M. Ouellet, I. Mikaelian, B. Pauli, J. Rodrigue, D. Green. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Microbiology, Virology

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Hero
2. J. Morgan
3. R. Knapp
4. K. Kriger
5. V. Vredenburg
6. Matthew Fisher
7. T. Garner
8. E. Muths

In Microbiology

1. R. Knapp
2. J. Morgan
3. V. Vredenburg
4. K. Acevedo-Whitehouse
5. J. Hero
6. K. Kriger

Citations in the corpus

• Large‐scale seasonal variation in the prevalence and severity of chytridiomycosis (2006, background): “…is not restricted to Australia: in three separate years, Bradley et al. (2002) witnessed winter die-offs of Rana yavapaiensis, Rana chiricahuensis and Hyla arenicolor at multiple sites in southern Arizona, and Ouellet et al. (2005) found lower chytrid prevalence in Quebec in the summer months.”
• Chytridiomycosis Widespread in Anurans of Northeastern United States (2007, background): “It is possible that existing anurans are more resistant to effects of the pathogen now than when it reached this area sometime before 1961, the collection year of the first B. dendrobatidis-positive specimen in the Northeast (Québec; Ouellet et al. 2005).”
• The relationship between the emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, the international trade in amphibians and introduced amphibian species (2007, background): “The first evidence of Bd infections in archived North American amphibians comes from frogs collected and preserved in 1961 ( Ouellet et al. 2005 ).”
• Global emergence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and amphibian chytridiomycosis in space, time, and host. (2009, background): “EPH: endemic pathogen hypothesis for decades prior to the onset of declines (83, 124); that the occurrence of Bd and chytridiomycosis is to an extent determined by environmental variables; and that there are measurable associations between amphibian condition (94), global warming, and the onset of c”
• Distribution and environmental limitations of an amphibian pathogen in the Rocky Mountains, USA (2008, background): “Historical evidence of widespread chytrid infection in North American amphibian populations.”
• Spread of Chytridiomycosis Has Caused the Rapid Global Decline and Extinction of Frogs (2007, background): “At present, this date precedes the earliest known dates for Bd in other continents by at least 23 years (Weldon et al., 2004; Ouellet et al., 2005).”
• Pesticide Mixtures, Endocrine Disruption, and Amphibian Declines: Are We Underestimating the Impact? (2006, background): “2004) and chytrid (Berger et al. 1998; Green and Muths 2005; McCallum 2005; Ouellet et al. 2005; Rollins-Smith et al. 2002; Weldon et al. 2004) are considered major contributors to amphibian declines.”
• The Novel and Endemic Pathogen Hypotheses: Competing Explanations for the Origin of Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife (2005, background): “Ouellet et al. (2005) examined 900 frogs from Canada and the United States.”
• Impact of urban fragmentation on the genetic structure of the eastern red-backed salamander (2007, background): “…factors have been proposed, such as climate changes (Pounds et al. 1999), pollutants (Kucken et al. 1994), ultraviolet radiations (Blaustein et al. 1998), diseases (Berger et al. 1998, but see Ouellet et al. 2005b), acid rain (Beebee et al. 1990), and invasive species (Knapp and Matthews 2000).”
• Costs of plasticity: responses to desiccation decrease post-metamorphic immune function in a pond-breeding amphibian (2007, background): “Although rates of infection with chytrid fungus are relatively low in Rana sylvatica in comparison with other North American species (Ouellet et al. 2005; Longcore et al. 2007), factors that predispose individuals to infection may impact morbidity and mortality associated with the pathogen.”
• Widespread historical presence of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in African pipid frogs (2010, background): “Previous retrospective studies have shown the earliest detection of infection across a continent (North America) to be the 1960s (Ouellet et al., 2005).”
• The role of infectious diseases in biological conservation (2009, background): “The oldest-known hosts of Bd are African-clawed frogs (genus Xenopus) (Ouellet et al., 2005), first recorded in South Africa in 1938.”
• The chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is non‐randomly distributed across amphibian breeding habitats (2007, background): “Furthermore, the fungus prefers cool temperatures (Longcore et al., 1999; Berger et al., 2004; Piotrowski et al., 2004; Ouellet et al., 2005; Kriger & Hero, 2007), and thus should grow better in streams than in ponds, as streams generally operate at lower temperatures than do ponds (ponds are…”
• Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions (2010, background): “muscosa specimens from the Sierra Nevada (20); these specimens were originally identified as Rana boylii, but subsequent inspection by one of the authors (V.”
• A global parasite conservation plan (2020, background): “, 2009), or extracting parasite DNA from specimens (Ouellet et al., 2005; Talley et al., 2015; Weldon et al., 2004).”
• The amphibian chytrid fungus along an altitudinal transect before the first reported declines in Costa Rica (2006, background): “Although it has been suggested that this is a novel pathogen (Daszak et al., 1999; Morehouse et al., 2003; Weldon et al., 2004), some authors suggest that the information available is still not conclusive (Rachowicz et al., 2005; Oullet et al., 2005 ).”