Zoosporangia of B. dendrobatidis growing on a freshwater arthropod (a) and algae (b); scale bars = 30 μm
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Chytridiomycota
Class:
Chytridiomycetes
Order:
Rhizophydiales
Family:
Batrachochytriaceae
Genus:
Batrachochytrium
Species:
B. dendrobatidis
Binomial name
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Longcore, Pessier & D.K. Nichols (1999)
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (/bəˌtreɪkoʊˈkɪtriəmˈdɛndroʊbətaɪdɪs/bə-TRAY-koh-KIT-ree-əm DEN-droh-bə-ty-dis), also known as Bd or the amphibian chytrid fungus, is a fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians.
Since its discovery in 1998 by Lee Berger,[1] the disease devastated amphibian populations around the world, in a global decline towards multiple extinctions, part of the Holocene extinction. A recently described second species, B. salamandrivorans, also causes chytridiomycosis and death in salamanders.
The fungal pathogens that cause the disease chytridiomycosis ravage the skin of frogs, toads, and other amphibians, throwing off their balance of water and salt and eventually causing heart failure, Nature reports. Some amphibian species appear to have an innate capacity to withstand chytridiomycosis infection due to symbiosis with Janthinobacterium lividum. Even within species that generally succumb, some populations survive, possibly demonstrating that these traits or alleles of species are being subjected to evolutionary selection.
^Berger L, Speare R, Daszak P, Green DE, Cunningham AA, Goggin CL, Slocombe R, Ragan MA, Hyatt AD, McDonald KR, Hines HB, Lips KR, Marantelli G, Parkes H (July 1998). "Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 95 (15): 9031–6. Bibcode:1998PNAS...95.9031B. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.15.9031. PMC 21197. PMID 9671799.
and 30 Related for: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis information
Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis (/bəˌtreɪkoʊˈkɪtriəm ˈdɛndroʊbətaɪdɪs/ bə-TRAY-koh-KIT-ree-əm DEN-droh-bə-ty-dis), also known as Bd or the amphibian chytrid...
disease in amphibians, caused by the chytrid fungi Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans. Chytridiomycosis has been linked...
increase in the research of chytrids since the discovery of Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, the causal agent of chytridiomycosis. Species of Chytridiomycota...
hypothesis claims that B. dendrobatidis related decreases in population are a result of the introduction and spread of B. dendrobatidis, independent of climate...
and other diseases impacting amphibian populations, including Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis and Ranavirus can be found at the Southeast Partners in Amphibian...
Certain zoospores are infectious and transmittable, such as Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, a fungal zoospore that causes high rates of mortality in amphibians...
where it prevents infection by the devastating chytrid fungus (Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis). The genus name, Janthinobacterium, comes from Latin janthinus...
American bullfrog has been known to spread the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis among populations that is has been introduced to. The American...
the American green tree frog is not easily susceptible to the Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis (Bd) pathogen and the disease chytridiomycosis. Reasons explaining...
have a single flagellum on their spores are the chytrids. In Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis the flagellum is 19–20 μm long. A nonfunctioning centriole lies...
became extinct in the wild mainly because of an epidemic of Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis in its native range. Despite the efforts of several conservation...
Although immune themselves, tiger salamanders transmit the fungus Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, which is a major worldwide threat to most frog species by causing...
Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis on other frogs in Indirana, but they do not know how much of a threat it poses to Indirana sarojamma. Batrachochytrium...
initiatives to reduce or even remove the trout from the region. Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, a fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis in frogs...
and the subsequent spread of a pathogenic chytrid fungus (Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis) linked to global climate change have been the leading cause...
fungus Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis can infect other frogs in Raorchestes, so they think believe could infect R. jayarami as well. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis...
in immunosuppressed people. A major non-human skin flora is Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, a chytrid and non-hyphal zoosporic fungus that causes chytridiomycosis...
habitat. Scientists believe the fungus Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis may infect this frog. Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis causes the fungal disease chytridiomycosis...
It is critically endangered because of the chytrid fungus, Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, and habitat destruction due to agriculture. The species had...
consideration is spreading of diseases, such as the fungus Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis responsible for a worldwide decline in amphibian populations...
observed the fungus Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis on this frog, but they consider it a possible threat. Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis causes the fungal...
component of the Blu-ray Disc Digital Rights Management system Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, a fungus that causes the fatal amphibian disease chytridiomycosis...
Richards-Zawacki, Corinne L. (2012-09-11). "The Amphibian Chytrid Fungus, Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, in Fully Aquatic Salamanders from Southeastern North America"...
African clawed frog) and the disease chytridiomycosis (caused by Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis). The species is kept in frog farms that supply the food market...
affecting amphibians, caused by the chytrid fungi Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans. It has the capability to cause...
fluconazole or itraconazole. Nikkomycin Z also inhibits growth of Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis, a serious fungal pathogen linked to global amphibian declines...
pollution, as well as infection from the amphibian chytrid fungus, Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hylodes meridionalis...
for facilitating the growth and proliferation of the fungus Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis (the causative agent of the fungal infection chytridiomycosis)...
species. Amphibians worldwide are being infected with the fungus Batrachochytriumdendrobatidis (Bd) and the boreal chorus frog is no exception. Bd infects...
Global Information
