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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 110, 期 38, 页码 15325-15329出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1307356110
关键词
amphibian decline; emerging infectious disease; ecosystem health
资金
- Dehousse grant
- Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
- European Research Council [204509]
- Biodiversa project Risk Assessment of Chytridiomycosis
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/K014455/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- European Research Council (ERC) [204509] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
- NERC [NE/K014455/1] Funding Source: UKRI
The current biodiversity crisis encompasses a sixth mass extinction event affecting the entire class of amphibians. The infectious disease chytridiomycosis is considered one of the major drivers of global amphibian population decline and extinction and is thought to be caused by a single species of aquatic fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. However, several amphibian population declines remain unexplained, among them a steep decrease in fire salamander populations (Salamandra salamandra) that has brought this species to the edge of local extinction. Here we isolated and characterized a unique chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans sp. nov., from this salamander population. This chytrid causes erosive skin disease and rapid mortality in experimentally infected fire salamanders and was present in skin lesions of salamanders found dead during the decline event. Together with the closely related B. dendrobatidis, this taxon forms a well-supported chytridiomycete clade, adapted to vertebrate hosts and highly pathogenic to amphibians. However, the lower thermal growth preference of B. salamandrivorans, compared with B. dendrobatidis, and resistance of midwife toads (Alytes obstetricans) to experimental infection with B. salamandrivorans suggest differential niche occupation of the two chytrid fungi.
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