Diverse alveolate infections of tadpoles, a new threat to frogs?

Aurelie Chambouvet; Vanessa Smilansky; Miloslav Jirků; Marcos Isidoro-Ayza; Sarah Itoïz; Evelyne Derelle; Adam Monier; David J Gower; Mark Wilkinson; Michael J Yabsley; Julius Lukeš; Thomas A Richards

doi:10.1371/journal.ppat.1008107

Diverse alveolate infections of tadpoles, a new threat to frogs?

PLoS Pathog. 2020 Feb 13;16(2):e1008107. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1008107. eCollection 2020 Feb.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ CNRS, Univ Brest, IRD, Ifremer, LEMAR, Plouzané, France.
² Biosciences, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom.
³ Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America.
⁵ Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom.
⁶ Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources and the Southeastern Cooperative Wildlife Disease Study, Department of Population Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America.
⁷ Faculty of Sciences, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice (Budweis), Czech Republic.
⁸ Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Review

MeSH terms

Alveolata* / pathogenicity
Alveolata* / physiology
Animals
Anura / parasitology*
Infections
Larva
Protozoan Infections, Animal / parasitology*

Grant support

AC was funded by the ANR project ACHN 2016 PARASED (ANR-16_ACHN_0003). This work was supported by the Czech Ministry of Education (ERD Funds 019/0000759) to JL. MJ and JL were supported by Institute of Parasitology CAS (RVO:60077344). AM and TAR are both funded by the Royal Society through University Research Fellowships. SI was funded by a French doctoral research grant from Ecole Doctorale des Sciences de la Mer (EDSM) and Region Bretagne. VS was supported by the EU Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020 (Grant No. H2020-MSCA-ITN-2015-675752). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.