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Coinfection with chytrid genotypes drives divergent infection dynamics reflecting regional distribution patterns.
Communications biology - 14 Sept 2023
Carvalho Tamilie, Medina Daniel, P Ribeiro Luisa, Rodriguez David, Jenkinson Thomas S, Becker C Guilherme, Toledo Luís Felipe, Hite Jessica L
Abstract excerpt
By altering the abundance, diversity, and distribution of species-and their pathogens-globalization may inadvertently select for more virulent pathogens. In Brazil's Atlantic Forest, a hotspot of amphibian biodiversity, the global amphibian trade has facilitated the co-occurrence of previously isolated enzootic and panzootic lineages of the pathogenic amphibian-chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, 'Bd') and...
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