Associations between skin bacteria and chytrid fungal infection in Asian amphibians.

ABSTRACT: Identifying the generality of defensive symbionts and microbiome structures associated with pathogen infection across multiple hosts provides insights into understanding disease susceptibility and managing disease. The fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) infects amphibian skin (the disease, chytridiomycosis), causing amphibian declines worldwide except in Asia. Here, we investigated associations between amphibian skin bacterial microbiome and Bd infection in five Asian amphibian species and the susceptible, Australasian species Litoria caerulea via experiments and in the wild. We found that Asian amphibians showed resistance to Bd infection experimentally, with Bd infection causing divergence in microbiome structures in inoculated animals. A

SUBMITTER: Zhang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12549381 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature