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Cheryl J. Briggs
Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara
Publications - 135
Citations - 13612
Cheryl J. Briggs is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Chytridiomycosis. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 130 publications receiving 12161 citations. Previous affiliations of Cheryl J. Briggs include University of California & University of California, Berkeley.
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Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health.
Matthew C. Fisher,Daniel A. Henk,Cheryl J. Briggs,John S. Brownstein,Lawrence C. Madoff,Sarah L. McCraw,Sarah J. Gurr +6 more
TL;DR: It is argued that nascent fungal infections will cause increasing attrition of biodiversity, with wider implications for human and ecosystem health, unless steps are taken to tighten biosecurity worldwide.
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Dynamics of an emerging disease drive large-scale amphibian population extinctions
TL;DR: The results indicate that the high growth rate and virulence of Bd allow the near-simultaneous infection and buildup of high infection intensities in all host individuals; subsequent host population crashes therefore occur before Bd is limited by density-dependent factors.
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Enzootic and epizootic dynamics of the chytrid fungal pathogen of amphibians
TL;DR: Results suggest that host persistence versus extinction does not require differences in host susceptibility, pathogen virulence, or environmental conditions, and may be just epidemic and endemic population dynamics of the same host–pathogen system.
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Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus
Reid N. Harris,Robert M. Brucker,Jenifer B. Walke,Matthew H. Becker,Christian R. Schwantes,Devon Flaherty,Brianna A. Lam,Douglas C. Woodhams,Cheryl J. Briggs,Vance T. Vredenburg,Kevin P. C. Minbiole +10 more
TL;DR: Adding an antifungal bacterial species, Janthinobacterium lividum, found on several species of amphibians to the skins of the frog Rana muscosa prevented morbidity and mortality caused by the pathogen chytridiomycosis, showing that cutaneous microbes are a part of amphibian' innate immune system, the microbial community structure on frog skins is a determinant of disease outcome and altering microbial interactions onfrog skins can prevent a lethal disease outcome.
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Should we expect population thresholds for wildlife disease
James O. Lloyd-Smith,Paul C. Cross,Paul C. Cross,Cheryl J. Briggs,Matthew P. Daugherty,Wayne M. Getz,Wayne M. Getz,John Latto,María S. Sánchez,Adam B. Smith,Andrea Swei +10 more
TL;DR: It is seen that, by their nature, these thresholds are rarely abrupt and always difficult to measure, and important facets of wildlife ecology are neglected by current theories.