Host and Environmental Factors Outweigh Pathogen in Shaping Skin Microbiome of a Threatened Andean Amphibian Community
The fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has driven severe amphibian declines across the Neotropics, yet some species persist under enzootic pathogen conditions following epizootics. We investigated whether skin bacterial communities and host mucosome activity contributed to the persistence of seven amph...