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Parental care contributes to vertical transmission of microbes in a skin-feeding and direct-developing caecilian by Kouete, Marcel T, Bletz, Molly C, LaBumbard, Brandon C, Woodhams, Douglas C, Blackburn, David C

“…Our current understanding of vertebrate skin and gut microbiomes, and their vertical transmission, remains incomplete as major lineages and varied forms of…”
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Continent-wide recent emergence of a global pathogen in African amphibians by Ghose, Sonia L., Yap, Tiffany A., Byrne, Allison Q., Sulaeman, Hasan, Rosenblum, Erica Bree, Chan-Alvarado, Alan, Chaukulkar, Shruti, Greenbaum, Eli, Koo, Michelle S., Kouete, Marcel T., Lutz, Kurt, McAloose, Denise, Moyer, Alessandra J., Parra, Eliseo, Portik, Daniel M., Rockney, Heidi, Zink, Andrew G., Blackburn, David C., Vredenburg, Vance T.

“…Introduction Emerging infectious diseases are increasingly recognized as a global threat to wildlife. Pandemics in amphibians, caused by the fungal pathogen…”
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Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Infection and Lethal Chytridiomycosis in Caecilian Amphibians (Gymnophiona) by Gower, David J, Doherty-Bone, Thomas, Loader, Simon P, Wilkinson, Mark, Kouete, Marcel T, Tapley, Benjamin, Orton, Frances, Daniel, Olivia Z, Wynne, Felicity, Flach, Edmund, Müller, Hendrik, Menegon, Michele, Stephen, Ian, Browne, Robert K, Fisher, Mathew C, Cunningham, Andrew A, Garner, Trenton W. J

“…Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) is commonly termed the ‘amphibian chytrid fungus’ but thus far has been documented to be a pathogen of only batrachian…”
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Sexual Dichromatism Drives Diversification within a Major Radiation of African Amphibians by Portik, Daniel M., Bell, Rayna C., Blackburn, David C., Bauer, Aaron M., Barratt, Christopher D., Branch, William R., Burger, Marius, Channing, Alan, Colston, Timothy J., Conradie, Werner, Dehling, J. Maximilian, Drewes, Robert C., Ernst, Raffael, Greenbaum, Eli, Gvoždík, Václav, Harvey, James, Hillers, Annika, Hirschfeld, Mareike, Jongsma, Gregory F. M., Kielgast, Jos, Kouete, Marcel T., Lawson, Lucinda P., Leaché, Adam D., Loader, Simon P., Lötters, Stefan, van der Meijden, Arie, Menegon, Michele, Müller, Susanne, Nagy, Zoltán T., Ofori-Boateng, Caleb, Ohler, Annemarie, Papenfuss, Theodore J., Rößler, Daniela, Sinsch, Ulrich, Rödel, Mark-Oliver, Veith, Michael, Vindum, Jens, Zassi-Boulou, Ange-Ghislain, McGuire, Jimmy A.

“…Theory predicts that sexually dimorphic traits under strong sexual selection, particularly those involved with intersexual signaling, can accelerate speciation…”
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Giant Tree Frog diversification in West and Central Africa: Isolation by physical barriers, climate, and reproductive traits by Jaynes, Kyle E., Myers, Edward A., Gvoždík, Václav, Blackburn, David C., Portik, Daniel M., Greenbaum, Eli, Jongsma, Gregory F. M., Rödel, Mark‐Oliver, Badjedjea, Gabriel, Bamba‐Kaya, Abraham, Baptista, Ninda L., Akuboy, Jeannot B., Ernst, Raffael, Kouete, Marcel T., Kusamba, Chifundera, Masudi, Franck M., McLaughlin, Patrick J., Nneji, Lotanna M., Onadeko, Abiodun B., Penner, Johannes, Vaz Pinto, Pedro, Stuart, Bryan L., Tobi, Elie, Zassi‐Boulou, Ange‐Ghislain, Leaché, Adam D., Fujita, Matthew K., Bell, Rayna C.

“…Secondary sympatry amongst sister lineages is strongly associated with genetic and ecological divergence. This pattern suggests that for closely related…”
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Rediscovery, natural history, and conservation status of Idiocranium russeli Parker, 1936 (Amphibia: Gymnophiona: Indotyphlidae) by Gower, David J, Kouete, Marcel T, Doherty-Bone, Thomas M, Ndeme, Echalle S, Wilkinson, Mark

“…The indotyphlid caecilian amphibian Idiocranium russeli Parker, 1936 is the only nominal species in its genus. Apart from two additional, largely overlooked…”
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