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SCIENCE
Volume 360, Issue 6389, Pages 621-+Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.aar1965
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- NERC [NE/K014455/1, NE/K012509/1]
- Microsoft Azure [ab7cd695-49cf-4a83-910a-ef71603e708b]
- EU BiodivERsA scheme (RACE, through NERC) [NE/G002193/1, ANR-08-Biodiversa-002-03]
- Nouragues Travel Grant Program
- MIT/Wellcome Trust Fellowship
- People's Trust for Endangered Species
- Morris Animal Foundation [D12ZO-002, D16ZO-022]
- Leverhulme Trust [RPG-2014-273]
- ERC [ERC 260801-Big_Idea]
- Wellcome Trust [099202]
- Hungarian Scientific Research Fund [OTKA K77841]
- Bolyai Janos Research Scholarship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences [BO/00579/14/8]
- Conservation Leadership Programme [0134010]
- Fondecyt [11140902, 1181758]
- Royal Geographical Society
- Royal Zoological Society of Scotland
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2015R1D1A1A01057282]
- FAPESP [2016/25358-3]
- CNPq [300896/2016-6]
- Australian Research Council [FT100100375, DP120100811]
- Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award
- Swedish Research Council Formas [2013-1389-26445-20]
- National Research Foundation, South Africa
- NSF [DEB-1601259]
- NSERC Strategic and Discovery grant programs
- Budongo Conservation Field Station
- BBSRC [BB/E023207/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/P007597/1, MR/R015600/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NBAF010003, NE/G001944/1, NE/K012509/1, NE/K014455/1, NE/E006701/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2015R1D1A1A01057282] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
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Globalized infectious diseases are causing species declines worldwide, but their source often remains elusive. We used whole-genome sequencing to solve the spatiotemporal origins of themost devastating panzootic to date, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a proximate driver of global amphibian declines. We traced the source of B. dendrobatidis to the Korean peninsula, where one lineage, BdASIA-1, exhibits the genetic hallmarks of an ancestral population that seeded the panzootic. We date the emergence of this pathogen to the early 20th century, coinciding with the global expansion of commercial trade in amphibians, and we show that intercontinental transmission is ongoing. Our findings point to East Asia as a geographic hotspot for B. dendrobatidis biodiversity and the original source of these lineages that now parasitize amphibians worldwide.
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