LINKS TO AMPHIBIAN DISEASE SITES

The links below concentrate on sites that deal with diseases of wild amphibians. It is based originally on a list of links found at the IRCEB site.

AmphibiaWeb
http://www.amphibiaweb.org

Amphibian - monitoring in Central and South America
http://www.lternet.edu/la/

Australian Amphibian Declines
http://www.jcu.edu.au/school/tbiol/zoology/herp/herp2.shtml

Australian Animal Health Laboratory (AAHL) CSIRO
http://www.csiro.au/page.asp?type=faq&id=Frog%20fungus

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, une des causes de la disparition des amphibiens - A brief overview of chytridiomycosis in French. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/batraciens/batrachochytrium.htm

Cairns Frog Hospital and Frog Decline Reversal Project
http://www.fdrproject.org/pages/FDR-CFH.htm

Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre
http://wildlife.usask.ca

Chytrid Fungi Online - a PEET project website
http://dogwood.botany.uga.edu/chytrid/

Conservation Medicine: Amphibian Declines
http://www.conservationmedicine.org/amphib.htm

Declining Amphibian Populations Task Force (DAPTF)
http://www.open.ac.uk/OU/Academic/Biology/J_Baker/JBtxt.htm

Declinaciones de Amphibios en el Ecuador
http://www.puce.edu.ec/Zoologia/declinac.html

Frogs.org
http://www.frogs.org

Global Amphibian Assessment - Assessment of the global status of amphibians.
http://www.globalamphibians.org/

Herptox Page - effects of environmental contaminants on reptiles and amphibians. One of the best websites ever put together on amphibian-related issues including a huge bibliography of literature pertaining to toxicology research on amphibs.
http://www.on.ec.gc.ca/herptox/

IRCEB: Global Decline of Amphibians
http://lsvl.la.asu.edu/irceb/amphibians/

Joyce Longcore's images
Joyce Longcore is the "mother" of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, being the author of the species (Longcore et al. 1999). Her site contains amazing images of Bd. http://www.umaine.edu/chytrids/Batrachochytrium/Photographs.html

Jumping Frog Lab - Immunology-oriented informations on Xenopus, including stains and species, as well as reagents (mABs, and molecular probes) available. Also information regarding their ongoing study of immunity to ranavirus in Xenopus.
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/mbi/robert/index.html

New Zealand: Conservation Biology and Emerging Infectious Disease
http://www.zool.canterbury.ac.nz/Projects/Conservation_Biology.htm

New Zealand: Chytrid fungus in New Zealand
http://ivabs.massey.ac.nz/centres/wildlife/rschrepts/chytrid/chytrid1.asp

Progetto Rospi: Toads Project - Italian project particularly interested in Bombina pachypus an endemic species in which chytridiomycosis has been found. The project produces a newsletter, BufoNEWS.
http://utenti.lycos.it/bufo2000/index.html