caa a22 4500 467882061 CHVBK 20180406152723.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10393-006-0027-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10393-006-0027-7 Survivorship in Wild Frogs Infected with Chytridiomycosis [Elektronische Daten] [Kerry Kriger, Jean-Marc Hero] Chytridiomycosis is an emerging infectious disease that has been implicated as the causative agent of many recent amphibian population declines and extinctions that have taken place in relatively pristine locations worldwide. While there exists a growing body of literature regarding the effect of the fungus on experimentally infected frogs, few studies have examined the effect of the fungus on apparently healthy wild frogs from nondeclining, infected populations. We examined the temporal pattern of chytrid infection in individually marked Stony Creek Frogs (Litoria wilcoxii) at a lowland site in southeast Queensland, Australia. We provide the first evidence that wild frogs are capable of both acquiring chytridiomycosis as adults, and also of clearing their infections entirely. Changes in disease status in individual frogs largely tracked changing climatic conditions, with infections tending to appear in cooler months and disappearing in warmer months. Though 27.2% of the adult frogs we sampled were infected at some point in the study, we found no evidence that chytridiomycosis was negatively affecting adult survivorship, suggesting either: (1) chytrid-induced mortality in this population is generally restricted to metamorphs and juveniles; (2) this population was not exposed to conditions which favored lethal disease outbreaks; or (3) this population has evolved sufficient resistance to the disease to persist relatively unaffected. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis nationallicence amphibian declines nationallicence chytridiomycosis nationallicence survivorship nationallicence chytrid nationallicence Litoria wilcoxii nationallicence Kriger Kerry Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, 9726, Queensland, Southport, Australia aut Hero Jean-Marc Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, 9726, Queensland, Southport, Australia aut EcoHealth Springer-Verlag 3/3(2006-09-01), 171-177 1612-9202 3:3<171 2006 3 10393 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-006-0027-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10393-006-0027-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kriger Kerry Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, 9726, Queensland, Southport, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hero Jean-Marc Centre for Innovative Conservation Strategies, Griffith University, PMB 50 Gold Coast Mail Centre, 9726, Queensland, Southport, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- EcoHealth Springer-Verlag 3/3(2006-09-01), 171-177 1612-9202 3:3<171 2006 3 10393 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer