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  • Ecology and applications of cutaneous mechanisms of resistance to amphibian chytridiomycosis

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    Nebergall, Emily E.
    Abstract:
    Amphibian biodiversity is in rapid global decline, due in part to the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd). Susceptibility to Bd and chytridiomycosis varies between species and populations. Skin peptides and symbiotic skin bacteria appear to be important mechanisms of Bd resistance. However, not much is known about...
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    Masters Thesis
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    : Jerri L. Bartholomew Amphibian biodiversity is in rapid global decline, due in part to the fungal

  • Ultraviolet radiation as an environmental stressor of amphibians

    Creator:
    Bancroft, Betsy A.
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    My thesis explored the effects of and potential mediating mechanisms for an important environmental stressor, ultraviolet-B (UVB) radiation. UVB radiation has negative effects on organisms in both terrestrial and aquatic systems. I used meta-analysis to quantify the effects of UVB radiation on a diversity of aquatic organisms (Chapter 2). UVB...
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    Dissertation
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    of the Blaustein lab. Erin Scheessele, John Romansic, Barbara Han, Catherine Searle, Lindsay

  • Environmental influences on host-pathogen dynamics of the amphibian chytrid fungus

    Creator:
    Buck, Julia C.
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    The causes of the global biodiversity crisis are varied and complex. Anthropogenic threats may act in isolation, or interact additively or synergistically with each other or with natural stressors to affect sensitive taxa. The recent emergence of many infectious diseases in wildlife has brought attention to the role of disease...
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    Dissertation
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    Blaustein lab, I have seen almost a full turnover of graduate students. Betsy, Barbara, Erin, and John, I

  • Disentangling the Biotic and Abiotic Drivers of the Amphibian Disease Chytridiomycosis

    Creator:
    Bradley, Paul W.
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    The ongoing worldwide loss of biodiversity has been described as a "biodiversity crisis," "the Anthropocene defaunation," and alternatively "an extinction spasm." More recently, many scientists have come to the conclusion that we are witnesses to Earth's sixth major mass extinction event, which has the potential to fundamentally alter basic ecological...
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    Dissertation
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    , Ellen Peseke, Erin Davis, Virginia Raffaele, and Shelby Bauer. I would also like to acknowledge two