期刊
BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION
卷 152, 期 -, 页码 119-126出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.022
关键词
Amphibian; Mutualistic bacteria; Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis; Environmental transmission; Bioaugmentation; Probiotic; Chytridiomycosis
资金
- NSF [0640373]
- Direct For Biological Sciences
- Division Of Environmental Biology [0640373] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Amphibians worldwide are declining in part due to the disease chytridiomycosis caused by the cutaneous fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). While several experimental disease mitigation strategies are currently being tested, no proven implementable strategy exists to combat chytridiomycosis in the field. A plausible conservation strategy is the use of probiotic anti-Bdbacteria to combat chytridiomycosis (bioaugmentation). In this study, we examined the use of soilbioaugmentation in mitigation of chytridiomycosis in a laboratory experiment. Specifically, we sought to determine if the anti-Bd bacterial species Janthinobacterium lividum could be successfully introduced into natural soil, if the introduced bacteria could then be transmitted to the skin of the amphibian species Plethodon cinereus, and if the environmental transmission of J.lividum could reduce Bd infection on P. cinereus. We demonstrated that J.lividum can be successfully introduced into soil and can be environmentally transmitted to P. cinereus skin. We found that the environmental transmission of J.lividum inhibited colonization by Bd on the skin of P.cinereus five days post-Bd exposure. Soilbioaugmentation may be a feasible conservation strategy that could protect amphibians susceptible to chytridiomycosis from declines driven by the disease. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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