Title
Cryptic diversity of a widespread global pathogen reveals expanded threats to amphibian conservation
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Byrne A.Q.
Vredenburg V.T.
Martel A.
Pasmans F.
Bell R.C.
Blackburn D.C.
Bletz M.C.
Bosch J.
Briggs C.J.
Brown R.M.
López M.F.
Figueroa-Valenzuela R.
Ghose S.L.
Jaeger J.R.
Jani A.J.
Jirku M.
Knapp R.A.
Muñoz A.
Portik D.M.
Richards-Zawacki C.L.
Rockney H.
Rovito S.M.
Stark T.
Sulaeman H.
Tao N.T.
Voyles J.
Waddle A.W.
Yuan Z.
Rosenblum E.B.
Florida International University
Publisher(s)
National Academy of Sciences
Abstract
Biodiversity loss is one major outcome of human-mediated ecosystem disturbance. One way that humans have triggered wildlife declines is by transporting disease-causing agents to remote areas of the world. Amphibians have been hit particularly hard by disease due in part to a globally distributed pathogenic chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis [Bd]). Prior research has revealed important insights into the biology and distribution of Bd; however, there are still many outstanding questions in this system. Although we know that there are multiple divergent lineages of Bd that differ in pathogenicity, we know little about how these lineages are distributed around the world and where lineages may be coming into contact. Here, we implement a custom genotyping method for a global set of Bd samples. This method is optimized to amplify and sequence degraded DNA from noninvasive skin swab samples. We describe a divergent lineage of Bd, which we call BdASIA3, that appears to be widespread in Southeast Asia. This lineage co-occurs with the global panzootic lineage (BdGPL) in multiple localities. Additionally, we shed light on the global distribution of BdGPL and highlight the expanded range of another lineage, BdCAPE. Finally, we argue that more monitoring needs to take place where Bd lineages are coming into contact and where we know little about Bd lineage diversity. Monitoring need not use expensive or difficult field techniques but can use archived swab samples to further explore the history—and predict the future impacts—of this devastating pathogen.
Start page
20382
End page
20387
Volume
116
Issue
41
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85073062159
PubMed ID
Source
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
ISSN of the container
00278424
Sponsor(s)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. We thank Obed Hernández-Gómez and Thomas Jenkinson for assisting with laboratory work and providing comments on the manuscript and Max Lambert and Andrew Rothstein for comments on the manuscript. This work was supported by NSF Grant IOS 1354241 (to E.B.R.), NSF Grant DEB 1557190 (to C.J.B., R.A.K., and E.B.R.), NSF Grant DEB 1551488 (to J.V., C.L.R.-Z., and E.B.R.), and the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (A.Q.B.). Sequencing done at the University of Idaho Institute of Bioin-formatics and Evolutionary Studies Genomics Resources Core is supported by NIH Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence Phase III Grant P30GM103324. Sample collection was supported by grants from the NSF (DEB-1202609 [to D.C.B.]; DEB-0743491, 0334952, 1418895, and 1654388 [to R.M.B.]; and Belmont Forum 1633948 [to V.T.V.]), the Czech Science Foundation and Institute of Parasitology (Grants P506/10/2330 and RVO 60077344 [to M.J.]), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 31702008 [to Z.Y.]), and the Yunnan Applied Basic Research Project (Grant 2018FD047 [to Z.Y.]).
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