| preparing for invasion: assessing risk of infection by chytrid fungi in southeastern plethodontid salamanders. | understanding the responses of naïve communities to the invasion of multihost pathogens requires accurate estimates of susceptibility across taxa. in the americas, the likely emergence of a second amphibian pathogenic fungus (batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, bsal) calls for new ways of prioritizing disease mitigation among species due to the high diversity of naïve hosts with prior b. dendrobatidis (bd) infections. here, we applied the concept of pathogenic potential to quantify the virulence ... | 2020 | 33174393 |
| a new species of dusky salamander (amphibia: plethodontidae: desmognathus) from the eastern gulf coastal plain of the united states and a redescription of d. auriculatus | the coastal plain of the southeastern u. s. is one of the planet's top biodiversity hotspots and yet many taxa have not been adequately studied. the plethodontid salamander, desmognathus auriculatus, was originally thought to occur from east texas to virginia, a range spanning dozens of interfluves and large river systems. beamer and lamb (2008) found five independent mitochondrial lineages of what has been called d. auriculatus in the atlantic coastal plain, but did not examine the extensive di ... | 2017 | 28609856 |