Andres Merino-Viteri
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Narvaez-Narvaez D, Cabrera-Andrade A, Merino-Viteri A, Paz-Y-Mino C, Burgos G, Genoy-Puerto A
J Wildl Dis
. 2021 Sep;
57(4):749-760.
PMID: 34525187
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) infection is one of the principal causes of amphibian declines worldwide. The presence of Bd has been determined in Gastrotheca riobambae tadpoles that inhabit ponds in Quito's...
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Pintanel P, Tejedo M, Salinas-Ivanenko S, Jervis P, Merino-Viteri A
J Anim Ecol
. 2021 May;
90(8):1985-1995.
PMID: 33942306
Climate change may have dramatic consequences for communities through both direct effects of peak temperatures upon individual species and through interspecific mismatches in thermal sensitivities of interacting organisms which mediate...
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Jervis P, Pintanel P, Hopkins K, Wierzbicki C, Shelton J, Skelly E, et al.
Mol Ecol
. 2021 Jan;
30(5):1322-1335.
PMID: 33411382
Microbiome-pathogen interactions are increasingly recognized as an important element of host immunity. While these host-level interactions will have consequences for community disease dynamics, the factors which influence host microbiomes at...
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Guerra-Correa E, Merino-Viteri A, Andrango M, Torres-Carvajal O
PLoS One
. 2020 Jan;
15(1):e0228043.
PMID: 31978205
This study aims to analyze the thermal biology and climatic vulnerability of two closely related lizard species (Stenocercus festae and S. guentheri) inhabiting the Ecuadorian Andes at high altitudes. Four...
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Oleas-Paz A, Santamaria-Naranjo A, Rojas-Carrillo M, Merino-Viteri A, Genoy-Puerto A
BMC Res Notes
. 2019 Dec;
12(1):807.
PMID: 31842990
Objective: Edema syndrome is highly prevalent but under researched in captive frogs around the world. The objective of the present study was to characterize at a basic microbiological and cytological...
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Galante-Mulki M, Alvear-Santos Y, Santamaria-Naranjo A, Merino-Viteri A, Genoy-Puerto A
Heliyon
. 2019 Apr;
5(4):e01432.
PMID: 30997428
Bone alterations due to metabolic bone disease in captive animal populations can have a negative impact on repopulation and research initiatives. This investigation has the purpose of describing the principal...
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Ohmer M, Cramp R, White C, Harlow P, McFadden M, Merino-Viteri A, et al.
Proc Biol Sci
. 2019 Apr;
286(1896):20182378.
PMID: 30963925
Amphibian skin is highly variable in structure and function across anurans, and plays an important role in physiological homeostasis and immune defence. For example, skin sloughing has been shown to...
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Flechas S, Blasco-Zuniga A, Merino-Viteri A, Ramirez-Castaneda V, Rivera M, Amezquita A
PeerJ
. 2017 Aug;
5:e3594.
PMID: 28785515
Many amphibian species are at risk of extinction in their natural habitats due to the presence of the fungal pathogen (). For the most highly endangered species captive assurance colonies...
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Storlie C, Merino-Viteri A, Phillips B, VanDerWal J, Welbergen J, Williams S
Biol Lett
. 2014 Sep;
10(9).
PMID: 25252835
To assess a species' vulnerability to climate change, we commonly use mapped environmental data that are coarsely resolved in time and space. Coarsely resolved temperature data are typically inaccurate at...
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Pounds J, Bustamante M, Coloma L, Consuegra J, Fogden M, Foster P, et al.
Nature
. 2006 Jan;
439(7073):161-7.
PMID: 16407945
As the Earth warms, many species are likely to disappear, often because of changing disease dynamics. Here we show that a recent mass extinction associated with pathogen outbreaks is tied...