Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis JEL423 Assembly and Gene Annotation

About Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis JEL423 (GCA_000149865)

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis ( ), also known as Bd or the amphibian chytrid fungus, is a fungus that causes the disease chytridiomycosis in amphibians.

In the decade after it was first discovered in 1998, the disease devastated amphibian populations around the world, in a global decline towards multiple extinctions, part of the Holocene extinction. A recently described second species, B. salamandrivorans, also cause chytridiomycosis and death in salamanders.

Some amphibian species appear to have an innate capacity to withstand chytridiomycosis infection due to symbiosis with Janthinobacterium lividum. Even within species that generally succumb, some populations survive, possibly demonstrating that these traits or alleles of species are being subjected to evolutionary selection.

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Assembly

The assembly presented is the BD_JEL423 assembly submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_000149865.1.

Annotation

The annotation presented is derived from annotation submitted to INSDC with the assembly accession GCA_000149865.1, with additional non-coding genes derived from Rfam. For more details, please visit INSDC annotation import.

More information

General information about this species can be found in Wikipedia.