TY  - JOUR
A1  - Toledo, Luís Felipe
A1  - Haddad, Célio Fernando Baptista
A1  - Carnaval, Ana Carolina O. Q.
A1  - Britto, Fábio B.
T1  - A Brazilian anuran (Hylodes magalhaesi: Leptodactylidae) infected by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: a conservation concern
T2  - Amphibian & reptile conservation : the international journal devoted to the worldwide preservation and management of amphibian and reptilian diversity
N2  - Several studies have associated the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis with anuran population declines worldwide. To date, the fungus has been found in Africa, the Americas, Australia, and Europe. However, it has never been reported to occur in the Atlantic forest or Brazil. Based on morphological, histological, and molecular data, we encountered evidence of B. dendrobatidis infection in a high-altitude stream-dwelling Brazilian anuran species, Hylodes magalhaesi (Leptodactylidae). One population (Municipality of Camanducaia, State of Minas Gerais) was surveyed from 2001 to 2005. Tadpoles lacking teeth were observed and collected in 2004. Histological and molecular analyses identified infection by B. dendrobatidis. Although infected tadpoles seem nowadays to co-exist with the disease, our results are alarming due to the highly endangered situation of the Brazilian Atlantic forest and its fauna. Effects of the chytrid infection on the studied population are still unknown. Further investigations are needed to provide information on its distribution in relation to other populations of H. magalhaesi.
KW  - Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
KW  - Hylodes
KW  - anuran decline
KW  - conservation
KW  - Atlantic forest
Y1  - 2006
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/20494
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-87301
SN  - 1525-9153
SN  - 1083-446X
N1  - Copyright: © 2006 Toledo et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 4
IS  - (1): e17
SP  - 17
EP  - 21
PB  - PubMed Central
CY  - Bethesda, Md.
ER  -