Recent Asian origin of chytrid fungi causing global amphibian declines

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O'Hanlon, Simon J. ^{[1, 2, 3]} ; Rieux, Adrien ^[4] ; Farrer, Rhys A. ^{[2, 3]} ; Rosa, Goncalo M. ^{[1, 5, 6]} ; Waldman, Bruce ^[7] ; Bataille, Arnaud ^{[7, 8]} ; Kosch, Tiffany A. ^{[7, 9]} ; Murray, Kris A. ^{[2, 3]} ; Brankovics, Balazs ^{[10, 11]} ; Fumagalli, Matteo ^{[12, 13]} ; Martin, Michael D. ^{[14, 15]} ; Wales, Nathan ^[15] ; Alvarado-Rybak, Mario ^[16] ; Bates, Kieran A. ^{[1, 2, 3]} ; Berger, Lee ^[9] ; Boell, Susanne ^[17] ; Brookes, Lola ^[1] ; Clare, Frances ^{[1, 2, 3]} ; Courtois, Elodie A. ^[18] ; Cunningham, Andrew A. ^[1] ; Doherty-Bone, Thomas M. ^[19] ; Ghosh, Pria ^{[20, 2, 3]} ; Gower, David J. ^[21] ; Hintz, William E. ^[22] ; Hoglund, Jacob ^[23] ; Jenkinson, Thomas S. ^[24] ; Lin, Chun-Fu ^[25] ; Laurila, Anssi ^[23] ; Loyau, Adeline ^{[26, 27]} ; Martel, An ^[28] ; Meurling, Sara ^[23] ; Miaud, Claude ^[29] ; Minting, Pete ^[30] ; Pasmans, Frank ^[28] ; Schmeller, Dirk S. ^{[26, 27]} ; Schmidt, Benedikt R. ^{[31, 32]} ; Shelton, Jennifer M. G. ^{[2, 3]} ; Skerratt, Lee F. ^[9] ; Smith, Freya ^{[33, 1]} ; Soto-Azat, Claudio ^[16] ; Spagnoletti, Matteo ^[13] ; Tessa, Giulia ^[34] ; Toledo, Luis Felipe ^[35] ; Valenzuela-Sanchez, Andres ^{[16, 36]} ; Verster, Ruhan ^[20] ; Voros, Judit ^[37] ; Webb, Rebecca J. ^[9] ; Wierzbicki, Claudia ^{[2, 3]} ; Wombwell, Emma ^[1] ; Zamudio, Kelly R. ^[38] ; Aanensen, David M. ^{[39, 2, 3]} ; James, Timothy Y. ^[24] ; Gilbert, M. Thomas P. ^{[14, 15]} ; Weldon, Che ^[20] ; Bosch, Jaime ^[40] ; Balloux, Francois ; Garner, Trenton W. J. ^{[1, 20, 34]} ; Fisher, Matthew C. ^{[2, 3]}

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^[1] Inst Zool, Regents Pk, London NW1 4RY - England

^[2] Imperial Coll London, Sch Publ Hlth, Dept Infect Dis Epidemiol, London W2 1PG - England

^[3] Imperial Coll London, Sch Publ Hlth, MRC Ctr Global Infect Dis Anal, London W2 1PG - England

^[4] CIRAD, St Pierre 97410, Reunion - France

^[5] Univ Nevada, Dept Biol, Reno, NV 89557 - USA

^[6] Univ Lisbon, Fac Ciencias, CE3C, Lisbon - Portugal

^[7] Seoul Natl Univ, Sch Biol Sci, Lab Behav & Populat Ecol, Seoul 08826 - South Korea

^[8] CIRAD, UMR ASTRE, F-34398 Montpellier - France

^[9] James Cook Univ, Coll Publ Hlth Med & Vet Sci, Hlth Res Grp 1, Townsville, Qld 4811 - Australia

^[10] Westerdijk Fungal Biodivers Inst, Uppsalalaan 8, NL-3584 CT Utrecht - Netherlands

^[11] Univ Amsterdam, Inst Biodivers & Ecosyst Dynam, Sci Pk 904, NL-1098 XH Amsterdam - Netherlands

^[12] Imperial Coll London, Dept Life Sci, Silwood Pk Campus, Ascot, Berks - England

^[13] UCL, Genet Inst, London WC1E 6BT - England

^[14] Norwegian Univ Sci & Technol NTNU, NTNU Univ Museum, Dept Nat Hist, Erling Skakkes Gate 49, NO-7012 Trondheim - Norway

^[15] Univ Copenhagen, Nat Hist Museum Denmark, Ctr GeoGenet, Oster Voldgade 5-7, DK-1350 Copenhagen - Denmark

^[16] Univ Andres Bello, Fac Ecol & Recursos Nat, Ctr Invest Sustentabilidad, Republ 440, Santiago - Chile

^[17] Agcy Populat Ecol & Nat Conservancy, Gerbrunn - Germany

^[18] Univ Guyane, CNRS, IFREMER, LEEISA, Cayenne 97300 - French Guiana

^[19] Royal Zool Soc Scotland, Conservat Programmes, Edinburgh, Midlothian - Scotland

^[20] North West Univ, Unit Environm Sci & Management, Private Bag x6001, ZA-2520 Potchefstroom - South Africa

^[21] Nat Hist Museum, Life Sci, London SW7 5BD - England

^[22] Univ Victoria, Dept Biol, Victoria, BC V8W 3N5 - Canada

^[23] Uppsala Univ, EBC, Dept Ecol & Genet, Norbyv 18D, SE-75236 Uppsala - Sweden

^[24] Univ Michigan, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 - USA

^[25] Endem Species Res Inst, Div Zool, 1 Ming Shen East Rd, Nantou 552 - Taiwan

^[26] UFZ Helmholtz Ctr Environm Res, Dept Conservat Biol, D-04318 Leipzig - Germany

^[27] Univ Toulouse, UPS, CNRS, EcoLab, INPT, Toulouse - France

^[28] Univ Ghent, Fac Vet Med, Dept Pathol Bacteriol & Avian Dis, B-9820 Merelbeke - Belgium

^[29] Univ Paul Valery Montpellier, Univ Montpellier, PSL Res Univ, CEFE UMR 5175, CNRS, EPHE, Montpellier - France

^[30] Amphibian & Reptile Conservat ARC Trust, Bournemouth BH1 4AP, Dorset - England

^[31] Univ Zurich, Dept Evolutionary Biol & Environm Studies, CH-8057 Zurich - Switzerland

^[32] Info Fauna Karch, UniMail Batiment G, Bellevaux 51, CH-2000 Neuchatel - Switzerland

^[33] APHA, Natl Wildlife Management Ctr, Woodchester Pk GL10 3UJ, Glos - England

^[34] Nonprofit Assoc Zirichiltaggi Sardinia Wildlife C, Str Vicinale Filigheddu 62-C, I-07100 Sassari - Italy

^[35] Univ Estadual Campinas, Inst Biol, Dept Biol Anim, Lab Hist Nat Anfibios Brasileiros LaHNAB, Campinas, SP - Brazil

^[36] ONG Ranita Darwin, Nataniel Cox 152, Santiago - Chile

^[37] Hungarian Nat Hist Museum, Dept Zool, Collect Amphibians & Reptiles, Baross U 13, H-1088 Budapest - Hungary

^[38] Cornell Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, Ithaca, NY 14853 - USA

^[39] Ctr Genom Pathogen Surveillance, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambs - England

^[40] CSIC, Museo Nacl Ciencias Nat, C Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, E-28006 Madrid - Spain

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: Science; v. 360, n. 6389, p. 621+, MAY 11 2018.
• Web of Science Citations: 76

Abstract

Globalized infectious diseases are causing species declines worldwide, but their source often remains elusive. We used whole-genome sequencing to solve the spatiotemporal origins of themost devastating panzootic to date, caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a proximate driver of global amphibian declines. We traced the source of B. dendrobatidis to the Korean peninsula, where one lineage, BdASIA-1, exhibits the genetic hallmarks of an ancestral population that seeded the panzootic. We date the emergence of this pathogen to the early 20th century, coinciding with the global expansion of commercial trade in amphibians, and we show that intercontinental transmission is ongoing. Our findings point to East Asia as a geographic hotspot for B. dendrobatidis biodiversity and the original source of these lineages that now parasitize amphibians worldwide. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/25358-3 - The chytrid fungus: from its origins to its consequences
• Grantee: Luis Felipe de Toledo Ramos Pereira
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants