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The European Reference Genome Atlas: piloting a decentralised approach to equit...
Mc Cartney, Ann M.; Formenti, Giulio; Mouton, Alice; De Panis, Diego; Marins, Luísa S; Leitão, Henrique; Diedericks, Genevieve; KIRANGWA, JOSEPHABSTRACT: A global genome database of all of Earth’s species diversity could be a treasure trove of scientific discoveries. However, regardless of the major advances in genome sequencing technologies, only a tiny fraction of species have genomic information available. To contribute to a more complete planetary genomic database, scientists and institutions across the world have united under the Earth BioGenome P...
Climate warming triggers the emergence of native viruses in Iberian amphibians
Thumsová, Barbora; Price, Stephen J.; González-Cascón, Victoria; Vörös, Judit; Martínez-Silvestre, Albert; Rosa, Gonçalo M.; Machordom, AnnieThe number of epizootics in amphibian populations caused by viruses of the genus Ranavirus is increasing worldwide. Yet, causes for pathogen emergence are poorly understood. Here, we confirmed that the Common midwife toad virus (CMTV) and Frog virus 3 (FV3) are responsible for mass mortalities in Iberia since the late 1980s. Our results illustrate the Iberian Peninsula as a diversity hotspot for the highly viru...
Development and worldwide use of non-lethal, and minimal population-level impac...
Fisher, Matthew C.; Ghosh, Pria; Shelton, Jennifer M. G.; Bates, Kieran; Brookes, Lola; Wierzbicki, Claudia; Rosa, Gonçalo M.; Farrer, Rhys A.Parasitic chytrid fungi have emerged as a significant threat to amphibian species worldwide, necessitating the development of techniques to isolate these pathogens into culture for research purposes. However, early methods of isolating chytrids from their hosts relied on killing amphibians. We modified a pre-existing protocol for isolating chytrids from infected animals to use toe clips and biopsies from toe we...