Many roads to reservoirs? How susceptibility and pathogen shedding determine host competence in amphibians
April 20, 2026
DeMarchi et al. (2025) explore why some amphibians are better reservoirs of the deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Bd) than others. The authors developed a new way of measuring “host competence”, that is, a species' ability to acquire and transmit infection, integrating…
