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Inhibitory bacteria reduce fungi on early life stages of endangered Colorado boreal toads ( <i>Anaxyrus boreas</i> )
13 Nov 2015
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Increasingly, host-associated microbiota are recognized to mediate pathogen establishment, providing new ecological perspectives on health and disease. Amphibian skin-associated microbiota interact with the fungal pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), but little is known about microbial turnover during host development and associations with host immune function. We surveyed skin microbiota of Colorado's...
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