Oral Chytridiomycosis in the Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog (Rana muscosa)

By G. Fellers, D. Green, J. Longcore. Copeia, 2001

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Microbiology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. J. Hero
2. J. Morgan
3. V. Vredenburg
4. R. Knapp
5. Cheryl J. Briggs
6. R. Alford
7. R. Puschendorf
8. T. Gardner

In Microbiology

1. R. Knapp
2. J. Morgan
3. V. Vredenburg
4. J. Hero

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. J. Morgan
2. R. Knapp
3. V. Vredenburg
4. J. Hero
5. R. Alford
6. K. Lips
7. Cheryl J. Briggs
8. Benjamin M. Bolker

Citations in the corpus

• Interspecific Variation in Susceptibility of Frog Tadpoles to the Pathogenic Fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (2005, methodology): “Larvae with infected mouthparts also have been found in the absence of mass mortality events (Fellers et al. 2001).”
• Ecology of Chytridiomycosis in Rainforest Stream Frog Assemblages of Tropical Queensland (2005, background): “…and other signs of disease were not noted in tadpoles of any of the species examined, again suggesting low pathogenicity in tadpoles, although deformities have been noted in other species (Lips 1999; Fellers et al. 2001), and Retallick (2002) noted signs of starvation in moribund tadpoles.”
• Mechanisms of disease‐induced extinction (2004, background): “…of boreal toad (Bufo boreas) in Colorado (USA) apparently due to this same pathogen, and populations of yellow-legged frogs (Rana muscosa) are apparently vanishing from the Californian Sierra Nevada, again apparently from chytrid fungus (C. Briggs, pers. comm.; Bradford 1991; Fellers et al. 2001).”
• Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Broadly Distributed in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest (2006, background): “, 2005), individuals appearing sick or dying upon collection, and tadpoles with mouthpart abnormalities (since these can be caused by chytridiomycosis; Fellers et al., 2001).”
• Declining amphibian populations: a global phenomenon in conservation biology (2001, background): “The same fungus has been more recently identified to the species level (LONGORE et al., 1999), and an increasing number of reports have confirmed its presence in all of the six continents that are inhabited by amphibians (DASZAK et al., 1999; CAREY, 2000; FELLERS et al., 2001).”
• INVESTIGATING THE POPULATION‐LEVEL EFFECTS OF CHYTRIDIOMYCOSIS: AN EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE OF AMPHIBIANS (2005, background): “The earliest documented case of chytridiomycosis in R. muscosa is from 1998 at several sites in the northern Sierra Nevada in Yosemite National Park (Fellers et al. 2001).”
• Effects of nonnative fish and habitat characteristics on lentic herpetofauna in Yosemite National Park, USA (2005, background): “…to the worldwide decline of amphibian and reptile populations (Bradford, 1989; Jennings et al., 1992; Br€onmark and Edenhamn, 1994; Bra~na et al., 1996; Gamradt and Kats, 1996; Fisher and Shaffer, 1996; Tyler et al., 1998; Pilliod and Peterson, 2001; Hamer et al., 2002; Matthews et al., 2002).”
• Are we in the midst of the sixth mass extinction? A view from the world of amphibians (2008, background): “In 2001, chytridiomycosis, a disease of amphibians caused by a newly discovered pathogenic fungus [Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd)] (33) was detected in the Sierra Nevada (34).”
• Amphibian population declines in montane southern Mexico: resurveys of historical localities (2004, background): “We collected 368 tadpoles on 23 of the 40 transects; 11 transects produced tadpoles that were missing some or all of their mouthparts, which can indicate infection by chytrid fungus (Lips, 1998, 1999; Fellers et al., 2001).”
• The Decline of the Sharp-Snouted Day Frog (Taudactylus acutirostris): The First Documented Case of Extinction by Infection in a Free-Ranging Wildlife Species? (2006, background): “, 2005), and the Americas (Fellers et al., 2001; Young et al., 2001; Ron et al., 2003).”
• Tadpole Mouthpart Depigmentation as an Accurate Indicator of Chytridiomycosis, an Emerging Disease of Amphibians (2006, methodology): “To date, these methods include cytology (Berger et al., 1998; Nichols et al., 2001), histology (Longcore et al., 1999; Fellers et al., 2001; Nichols et al., 2001), histochemistry (Berger et al., 2002), standard PCR (Annis et al., 2004), and real-time (quantitative) PCR (Boyle et al., 2004).”
• The Novel and Endemic Pathogen Hypotheses: Competing Explanations for the Origin of Emerging Infectious Diseases of Wildlife (2005, background): “dendrobatidis, that is widespread in this area (Fellers et al. 2001; Rachowicz & Vredenburg 2004).”
• Historical Evidence of Widespread Chytrid Infection in North American Amphibian Populations (2005, background): “Infection in tadpoles is restricted to the keratinized mouthparts (Fellers et al. 2001; Vredenburg & Summers 2001; but see Rachowicz 2002) and is not associated with illness or mortality.”
• Chytrid fungus infection related to unusual mortalities of Salamandra salamandra and Bufo bufo in the Peñalara Natural Park, Spain (2006, background): “Amphibian populations from North, Central and South America, Australia, New Zealand and Europe have suffered sudden and unusually high mortality rates, resulting in some species becoming extinct and many others undergoing sharp population reductions (Richards et al., 1993; Laurance et al., 1996; Lip”