BACKGROUND: Within-host microbial communities and interactions among microbes are increasingly recognized as
important factors influencing host health and pathogen transmission. The microbial community associated with a
host is indeed influenced by a complex network of direct and indirect interactions between the host and the lineages
of microbes it harbors, but...
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Evolutionary Biology at Brown University.
TrangDang was a research technician in the Brisson lab. She is
BACKGROUND: Within-host microbial communities and interactions among microbes are increasingly recognized as
important factors influencing host health and pathogen transmission. The microbial community associated with a
host is indeed influenced by a complex network of direct and indirect interactions between the host and the lineages
of microbes it harbors, but...
Anthropogenic and natural stressors often interact to affect organisms. Amphibian populations are undergoing unprecedented declines and extinctions with pesticides and emerging infectious diseases implicated as causal factors. Although these factors often co-occur, their effects on amphibians are usually examined in isolation. We hypothesized that exposure of larval and metamorphic amphibians...
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Amphibian Chytrid Fungus
Buck, J. C., Hua, J., Brogan III, W. R., Dang, T. D., Urbina, J., Bendis, R. J
Anthropogenic and natural stressors often interact to affect organisms. Amphibian populations are undergoing unprecedented declines and extinctions with pesticides and emerging infectious diseases implicated as causal factors. Although these factors often co-occur, their effects on amphibians are usually examined in isolation. We hypothesized that exposure of larval and metamorphic amphibians...