Megan Winzeler
Science and Products
Soil reservoir dynamics of ophidiomyces ophidiicola, the causative agent of snake fungal disease
Wildlife diseases pose an ever-growing threat to global biodiversity. Understanding how wildlife pathogens are distributed in the environment and the ability of pathogens to form environmental reservoirs is critical to understanding and predicting disease dynamics within host populations. Snake fungal disease (SFD) is an emerging conservation...
Campbell, Lewis J.; Burger, Joanna; Zappalorti, Robert T.; Bunnell, John F.; Winzeler, Megan; Taylor, Daniel R.; Lorch, Jeffrey M. Evidence of vertical transmission of the snake fungal pathogen Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola
Snake fungal disease (ophidiomycosis) is an emerging infection of snakes caused by Ophidiomyces ophiodiicola. Little is known about mechanisms of this pathogen's transmission and its implications for conservation of wild snake populations. We report four cases with evidence of vertical transmission of O. ophiodiicola from dam to...
Stengle, Anne G; Farrell, Terence M.; Freitas, Keenan S; Lind, Craig M.; Price, Steven J.; Butler, Brian O; Tadevosyan, Tigran; Isidoro Ayza, Marcos; Taylor, Daniel; Winzeler, Megan; Lorch, Jeffrey M. Pathogenic lineage of Perkinsea associated with mass mortality of frogs across the United States
Emerging infectious diseases such as chytridiomycosis and ranavirus infections are important contributors to the worldwide decline of amphibian populations. We reviewed data on 247 anuran mortality events in 43 States of the United States from 1999–2015. Our findings suggest that a severe infectious disease of tadpoles caused by a protist...
Isidoro Ayza, Marcos; Lorch, Jeffrey M.; Grear, Daniel A.; Winzeler, Megan; Calhoun, Daniel L.; Barichivich, William J.