Linking microbiome and stress hormone responses in wild tropical treefrogs across continuous and fragmented forests
Wesley J Neely, Renato A Martins, Camila M Mendonça da Silva, Tainá Ferreira da Silva, Lucas E Fleck, Ross D Whetstone, Douglas C Woodhams, W Harrison Cook, Paula R Prist, Victor H Valiati, Sasha E Greenspan, Alexandro M Tozetti, Ryan L Earley, C Guilherme Becker · 2023
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Description
Wesley Neely and a large team published a field study in two thousand twenty-three on treefrogs, skin microbes, and stress in Brazilian forests. A frog's skin microbiome helps fight pathogens. Whether forest fragmentation breaks the link between those microbes and the frog's stress system was unknown.
Using radio tracking and moving frogs along natural paths, the team followed microbe makeup, infection, and stress hormone levels over time. In fragmented forest, higher cortisol tracked with weaker microbe defence function. The microbiome itself bent without breaking, keeping pathogen-fighting function despite big membership shifts. Composition changed faster under fragmentation than under moving alone. The findings carry weight for frogs facing rapid deforestation.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wesley J Neely, Renato A Martins, Camila M Mendonça da Silva, Tainá Ferreira da Silva, Lucas E Fleck, Ross D Whetstone, Douglas C Woodhams, W Harrison Cook, Paula R Prist, Victor H Valiati, Sasha E Greenspan, Alexandro M Tozetti, Ryan L Earley, C Guilherme Becker |
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| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 65 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |