Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on the endemic frog Litoria raniformis in South Australia

Herpetological Review

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 220-223

  Örös, Juditv ^a   Price, Luke ^b   Donnellan, Stephen C ^c,d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b Biodiversity Conservation Unit Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges Region   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANURA; BATRACHOCHYTRIUM DENDROBATIDIS; LITORIA RANIFORMIS;

EID: 84858138895     PISSN: 0018084X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

References (25)

1. BERGER, L., R. SPEARE, P. DASZAK, D. GREEN, A. CUNNINGHAM, C. GOGGIN, R. SLOCOME, M. RAGAN, A. HYATT, K. MCDONALD, H. HINES, K. LIPS, G. MARANTELLI, AND H. PARKES. 1998. Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95:9031-9036. (Pubitemid 28350609)
2. -.-. H. HINES, G. MARANTELLI, A. D. HYATT, K. R. MCDONALD, L. F. SKERRATT, V. OLSEN, J. M. CLARKE, G. GILLESPIE, M. MAHONY, N. SHEPPARD, C. WILLIAMS, AND M. TYLER. 2004. Effect of season and temperature on mortality in amphibians due to chytridiomycosis. Aust. Vet. J. 82:31-36.
3. BOYLE, D. G., D. B. BOYLE, V. OLSEN, J. MORGAN, AND A. HYATT. 2004. Rapid quantitative detection of chytridiomycosis (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in amphibian samples using real-time Taqman PCR assay. Dis. Aquat. Org. 60:141-8. (Pubitemid 39588268)
4. COGGER, H. 1975. Reptiles and Amphibians of Australia. Reed, Sydney. 584 pp.
5. DASZAK, P., L. BERGER, A. A. CUNNINGHAM, A. D. HYATT, D. E. GREEN, AND R. SPEARE. 1999. Emerging infectious diseases and amphibian population declines. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 5:735-748. (Pubitemid 30022457)
6. DEWHA [DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, WATER, HERITAGE AND THE ARTS]. 2008. Litoria raniformis in Species Profile and Threats Database, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, Canberra. Available from: http://www.environment.gov. au/sprat. Accessed 14 Dec. 2008.
7. KRIGER, K. M., AND J-M. HERO. 2007. Large-scale seasonal variation in the prevalence and severity of chytridiomycosis. J. Zool. 271:352-359. (Pubitemid 46333333)
8. -. F. PEREOGLOU, AND J-M. HERO. 2007. Latitudinal variation in the prevalence and intensity of chytrid (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) infection in Eastern Australia. Conserv. Biol. 21:1280-1290. (Pubitemid 47460213)
9. LAURANCE, W. F, K. R. MCDONALD, AND R. SPEARE. 1996. Catastrophic declines of Australian rain forest frogs: support for the epidemic disease hypothesis. Conserv. Biol. 10:406-413.
10. LONGCORE, J., A. PESSIER, AND D. NICHOLS. 1999. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis gen. et sp. nov., a chytrid pathogenic to amphibians. Mycologia 91:219-27. (Pubitemid 29157942)
11. MURRAY, K., R. RETALUCK, K. MCDONALD, D. MENDEZ, K. APLIN, P. KIRKPATRICK, L. BERGER, D. HUNTER, H. B. HINES, R. CAMPBELL, M. PAUZA, M. DRIESSEN, R. SPEARE, S. J. RICHARDS, M. MAHONY, A. FREEMAN, A. D. PHILLOTT, J-M. HERO, K. KRIGER, D. DRISCOLL, A. FELTON, R. PUSCHENDOLF, AND L. F. SKERRATT. 2010. The distribution and host range of the pandemic disease chytridiomycosis in Australia, spanning surveys from 1956-2007. Ecology 91:1557
12. Ecological Archives E091-108.
13. OBENDORF, D., AND A. DALTON. 2006. A survey for the presence of the amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) in Tasmania. Pap. Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasmania 140:25-9.
14. POUNDS, J. A., M. R. BUSTAMANTE, L. A. COLOMA, J. A. CONSUEGRA, M. P. L. FOGDEN, P. N. FOSTER, E. LA MARCA, K. L. MASTERS, A. MERINO-VITERI, R. PUSCHENDORF, S. R. RON, G. A. SANCHEZ-AZOFEIFA, C. J. STILL, AND B. E. YOUNG. 2006. Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming. Nature 439:161-167. (Pubitemid 43083133)
15. PYKE, G. 2002. A review of the biology of the southern bell frog Litoria raniformis (Anura: Hylidae). Aust. Zool. 32:32-48. (Pubitemid 35197717)
16. ROZSA, L., J. REICZIGEL, AND G. MAJOROS. 2000. Quantifying parasites in samples of hosts. J. Parasitol. 86:228-232. (Pubitemid 30208378)
17. ROWLEY, J. J. L., AND R. A. ALFORD. 2007. Behaviour of Australian rainforest stream frogs may affect the transmission of chytridiomycosis. Dis. Aquat. Org. 77:1-9. (Pubitemid 351547081)
18. SIMPKINS, C, AND J-M. HERO. 2010. Detecting the western limits for Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in southeastern Queensland, Australia. Herpetol. Rev. 41:454-456.
19. SKERRATT, L. E, L. BERGER, H. B. HINES, K. R. MCDONALD, D. MENDEZ, AND R. SPEARE. 2008. Survey protocol for detecting chytridiomycosis in all Australian frog populations. Dis. Aquat. Org. 80:85-94.
20. SPEARE, R., AND L. BERGER. 2005. Chytridiomycosis status of wild amphibians in Australia,
21. THOMSON, S. A., M. J. LITTLEJOHN, W. A. ROBINSON, AND W. S. OSBORNE. 1996. Taxonomy of the Litoria aurea complex: a re-evaluation of the Southern Tableland populations of the Australian Capital Territory and New South Wales. Aust. Zool. 30:158-169. (Pubitemid 126417715)
22. VAN SLUYS, M., K. M. KRIGER, A. D. PHILLOTT, L. CAMPBELL, L. F. SKERRATT, AND J-M. HERO. 2008. Storage of samples at high temperatures reduces the amount of amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis DNA detectable by PCR assay. Dis. Aquat. Organ. 81:93-97.
23. VÖRÖS, J., A. MITCHELL, B. WALDMAN, S. GOLDSTIEN, AND N. GEMMELL. 2008. Crossing the Tasman Sea: Inferring the introduction history of Litoria aurea and Litoria raniformis (Anura: Hylidae) from Australia into New Zealand. Aust. Ecol. 33:623-629.
24. WALDMAN, B., K. E. VAN DE WOLFSHAAR, J. D. KLENA, V. ANDIIC, P. J. BISHOP, AND R. J. DE B. NORMAN. 2001. Chytridiomycosis in New Zealand frogs. Surveillance 28:9-11.
25. WASSENS, S. 2008. Review of the past distribution and decline of the Southern Bell Frog Litoria raniformis in New South Wales. Aust. Zool. 34:446-452.