Journal
BIOTROPICA
Volume 43, Issue 4, Pages 396-400Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00787.x
Keywords
antimicrobial peptide; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; disease ecology; Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum; Panama; skin defense; symbiotic microbiota
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [IOS-0520847, IOS-0619536, IOS-0843207, DEB-0640373]
- Division Of Integrative Organismal Systems
- Direct For Biological Sciences [0843207] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Amphibian embryos are at risk of microbial infection. Here we find evidence that innate immune defenses, both antimicrobial skin peptides and mutualistic microbiota, of adult glass frogs, Hyalinobatrachium colymbiphyllum, can be transmitted to embryos deposited on leaves above rain forest streams in Panama and can inhibit the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
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