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Sean M. Rovito
Researcher at Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Publications - 47
Citations - 1666
Sean M. Rovito is an academic researcher from Instituto Politécnico Nacional. The author has contributed to research in topics: Salamander & Genus. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 44 publications receiving 1218 citations. Previous affiliations of Sean M. Rovito include CINVESTAV & National Autonomous University of Mexico.
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Amphibian fungal panzootic causes catastrophic and ongoing loss of biodiversity
Ben C. Scheele,Ben C. Scheele,Frank Pasmans,Lee F. Skerratt,Lee Berger,An Martel,Wouter Beukema,Aldemar A. Acevedo,Aldemar A. Acevedo,Patricia A. Burrowes,Tamilie Carvalho,Alessandro Catenazzi,Ignacio De la Riva,Matthew C. Fisher,Sandra V. Flechas,Sandra V. Flechas,Claire N. Foster,Patricia Frías-Alvarez,Trenton W. J. Garner,Trenton W. J. Garner,Brian Gratwicke,Juan M. Guayasamin,Juan M. Guayasamin,Mareike Hirschfeld,Jonathan E. Kolby,Tiffany A. Kosch,Tiffany A. Kosch,Enrique La Marca,David B. Lindenmayer,Karen R. Lips,Ana V. Longo,Raúl Maneyro,Cait A. McDonald,Joseph R. Mendelson,Pablo Palacios-Rodríguez,Gabriela Parra-Olea,Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki,Mark-Oliver Rödel,Sean M. Rovito,Claudio Soto-Azat,Luís Felipe Toledo,Jamie Voyles,Ché Weldon,Steven M. Whitfield,Steven M. Whitfield,Mark Wilkinson,Kelly R. Zamudio,Stefano Canessa +47 more
TL;DR: A global, quantitative assessment of the amphibian chytridiomycosis panzootic demonstrates its role in the decline of at least 501 amphibian species over the past half-century and represents the greatest recorded loss of biodiversity attributable to a disease.
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Coincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
TL;DR: A noninvasive PCR sampling technique is described that can be used to screen museum specimens from other amphibian decline sites around the world and finds evidence of a historical “Bd epidemic wave” that began in Mexico and subsequently spread to Central America.
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Dramatic declines in neotropical salamander populations are an important part of the global amphibian crisis
Sean M. Rovito,Gabriela Parra-Olea,Carlos R. Vásquez-Almazán,Theodore J. Papenfuss,David B. Wake +4 more
TL;DR: These terrestrial microhabitat specialists have largely disappeared from multiple sites in western Guatemala, including in well-protected areas, suggesting that the phenomenon cannot be explained solely by localized habitat destruction.
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Cryptic diversity of a widespread global pathogen reveals expanded threats to amphibian conservation.
Allison Q. Byrne,Vance T. Vredenburg,An Martel,Frank Pasmans,Rayna C. Bell,Rayna C. Bell,David C. Blackburn,Molly C. Bletz,Jaime Bosch,Jaime Bosch,Cheryl J. Briggs,Rafe M. Brown,Alessandro Catenazzi,Mariel Familiar López,Raul Figueroa-Valenzuela,Sonia L. Ghose,Jef R. Jaeger,Andrea J. Jani,Miloslav Jirku,Roland A. Knapp,Antonio García Muñoz,Daniel M. Portik,Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki,Heidi Rockney,Sean M. Rovito,Tariq Stark,Hasan Sulaeman,Nguyen Thien Tao,Jamie Voyles,Anthony W. Waddle,Anthony W. Waddle,Zhi-Yong Yuan,Erica Bree Rosenblum +32 more
TL;DR: This study uses a custom method for genotyping degraded Bd DNA samples, such as those nondestructively collected from live animal or museum specimen skin swabs, and presents the discovery of a divergent lineage of Bd—BdASIA3, that appears to be widespread in Southeast Asia.
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Lineage divergence and speciation in the Web-toed Salamanders (Plethodontidae: Hydromantes) of the Sierra Nevada, California.
TL;DR: This article used a multilocus phylogeographical data set for two species of salamanders (genus Hydromantes) from the Sierra Nevada of California, and tested hypotheses of recent divergence by peripatric speciation and older, allopatric divergence.