List of works by Valerie J McKenzie

A communal catalogue reveals Earth's multiscale microbial diversity

scientific article published in November 2017

Antifungal isolates database of amphibian skin-associated bacteria and function against emerging fungal pathogens

scientific article published in 2015

Assessment of Bacterial Communities Associated With the Skin of Costa Rican Amphibians at La Selva Biological Station

article published in 2018

Bird community composition linked to human West Nile virus cases along the Colorado front range

scientific article published on 2 December 2010

Blood parasites of two Costa Rican amphibians with comments on detection and microfilaria density associated with adult filarial worm intensity

scientific article published in August 2008

Chemosensory responses to chemical and visual stimuli in five species of colubrid snakes

scientific article published on 19 April 2012

Chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis has nonamphibian hosts and releases chemicals that cause pathology in the absence of infection

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Co-habiting amphibian species harbor unique skin bacterial communities in wild populations

scientific article published on 29 September 2011

Community richness of amphibian skin bacteria correlates with bioclimate at the global scale

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats

scientific article published on 07 January 2020

Composition of Micro-eukaryotes on the Skin of the Cascades Frog (Rana cascadae) and Patterns of Correlation between Skin Microbes and Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

Deconstructing the Bat Skin Microbiome: Influences of the Host and the Environment

scientific article

Evaluating the impact of domestication and captivity on the horse gut microbiome.

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Evolutionary trends in host physiology outweigh dietary niche in structuring primate gut microbiomes

scientific article published on 11 July 2018

Experimental habitat fragmentation disrupts nematode infections in Australian skinks

scientific article published on 29 November 2018

Greater Species Richness of Bacterial Skin Symbionts Better Suppresses the Amphibian Fungal Pathogen Batrachochytrium Dendrobatidis

scientific article published on 7 January 2017

Gut bacterial communities across tadpole ecomorphs in two diverse tropical anuran faunas.

scientific article published on 29 February 2016

Host Ecology Rather Than Host Phylogeny Drives Amphibian Skin Microbial Community Structure in the Biodiversity Hotspot of Madagascar

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Host associated bacterial community succession during amphibian development.

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

Identification of Bufadienolides from the Boreal Toad, Anaxyrus boreas, Active Against a Fungal Pathogen

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Identifying fungal-host associations in an amphibian host system

scientific article published on 19 August 2021

Inhibitory bacteria reduce fungi on early life stages of endangered Colorado boreal toads (Anaxyrus boreas).

scientific article published on 13 November 2015

Interacting symbionts and immunity in the amphibian skin mucosome predict disease risk and probiotic effectiveness

scientific article

Introduced species and their missing parasites

scientific article

Introduction of Armand Kuris, recipient of the 2010 Clark P. Read Mentor Award

scientific article published on 8 September 2010

Investigating differences across host species and scales to explain the distribution of the amphibian pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

scientific article

Investigating the dispersal routes used by an invasive amphibian, Lithobates catesbeianus, in human-dominated landscapes

article published in 2013

Is there convergence of gut microbes in blood-feeding vertebrates?

scientific article published on 03 June 2019

Linking environmental nutrient enrichment and disease emergence in humans and wildlife

scientific article (publication date: 2010)

Managing Amphibian Disease with Skin Microbiota

scientific article

Microbial community dynamics and effect of environmental microbial reservoirs on red-backed salamanders (Plethodon cinereus).

scientific article

NEON terrestrial field observations: designing continental-scale, standardized sampling

article

Parasite infection alters nitrogen cycling at the ecosystem scale

scientific article

Pathogen pollution and the emergence of a deadly amphibian pathogen

scientific article

Probiotic treatment restores protection against lethal fungal infection lost during amphibian captivity.

scientific article published in September 2016

Probiotics as a tool for disease mitigation in wildlife: insights from food production and medicine

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

Regional decline of an iconic amphibian associated with elevation, land-use change, and invasive species

scientific article

Sharing and reporting benefits from biodiversity research

scientific article published on 06 November 2020

Skin bacteria provide early protection for newly metamorphosed southern leopard frogs (Rana sphenocephala) against the frog-killing fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis

article by Whitney M. Holden et al published July 2015 in Biological Conservation

The Effects of Captivity on the Mammalian Gut Microbiome

scientific article published in October 2017

The Oral and Skin Microbiomes of Captive Komodo Dragons Are Significantly Shared with Their Habitat

scientific article published on July 2016

The amphibian skin-associated microbiome across species, space and life history stages

scientific article

The microbiome in threatened species conservation

Urbanization and wetland communities: applying metacommunity theory to understand the local and landscape effects

scientific article published in 2012

Using "Omics" and Integrated Multi-Omics Approaches to Guide Probiotic Selection to Mitigate Chytridiomycosis and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases

scientific article

Vertebrate Hosts as Islands: Dynamics of Selection, Immigration, Loss, Persistence, and Potential Function of Bacteria on Salamander Skin

scientific article published on 16 March 2016