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Douglas C. Woodhams

University of Massachusetts Boston · US
Area of research
Global and Planetary Change · Microbiology
Research interest
Research interests include Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Gut microbiota and health, and Turtle Biology and Conservation.
h-index
51
citations
12,274
works
150
NIH funding
primary concept
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Recent publications

Connecting habitats, boosting disease resistance: Spatial connectivity enhances amphibian microbiome defenses against fungal pathogen.
2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Dermal glucocorticoids are uncoupled from stress physiology and infection
Conservation Physiology 2025cited by 2position: contributordoi
Fungal pathogen transmission dynamics in North American salamanders: Mathematical insights for disease management
Ecological Modelling 2025cited by 1position: contributordoi
Modelling <i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i> Presence and Intensity Using High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Weather Data
Diversity and Distributions 2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Mosquito Microbiomes of Rwanda: Characterizing Mosquito Host and Microbial Communities in the Land of a Thousand Hills.
2024cited by 3position: contributordoi
The adaptive microbiome hypothesis and immune interactions in amphibian mucus.
2023cited by 27position: contributordoi
Habitat split as a driver of disease in amphibians
Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 2023cited by 25position: middledoi
Selection of an anti-pathogen skin microbiome following prophylaxis treatment in an amphibian model system
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2023cited by 19position: middledoi
Linking microbiome and stress hormone responses in wild tropical treefrogs across continuous and fragmented forests
Communications Biology 2023cited by 10position: middledoi
Towards the generation of gnotobiotic larvae as a tool to investigate the influence of the microbiome on the development of the amphibian immune system
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2023cited by 10position: middledoi
Shotgun metagenomics captures more microbial diversity than targeted 16S rRNA gene sequencing for field specimens and preserved museum specimens.
2023cited by 10position: contributordoi
Towards the generation of gnotobiotic larvae as a tool to investigate the influence of the microbiome on the development of the amphibian immune system.
2023cited by 6position: contributordoi
Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss
Nature Microbiology 2022cited by 259position: middledoi
Inhibitory Bacterial Diversity and Mucosome Function Differentiate Susceptibility of Appalachian Salamanders to Chytrid Fungal Infection.
2022cited by 34position: contributordoi
Low microbiome diversity in threatened amphibians from two biodiversity hotspots
Animal Microbiome 2022cited by 11position: middledoi
Winter is coming-Temperature affects immune defenses and susceptibility to Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans.
2021cited by 29position: contributordoi
Host-associated microbiomes are predicted by immune system complexity and climate
Genome biology 2020cited by 134position: firstdoi
Host-associated microbiomes are predicted by immune system complexity and climate.
2020cited by 79position: contributordoi
Probiotics Modulate a Novel Amphibian Skin Defense Peptide That Is Antifungal and Facilitates Growth of Antifungal Bacteria.
2020cited by 43position: contributordoi
Widespread Pig Farming Practice Linked to Shifts in Skin Microbiomes and Disease in Pond-Breeding Amphibians
Environmental Science & Technology 2020cited by 33position: middledoi
Publisher Correction: Host-associated microbiomes are predicted by immune system complexity and climate
Genome biology 2020cited by 16position: firstdoi
<i>Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans</i> ELICITS ACUTE STRESS RESPONSE IN SPOTTED SALAMANDERS BUT NOT INFECTION OR MORTALITY.
2020cited by 13position: contributordoi
Engineering the microbiome for animal health and conservation
Experimental Biology and Medicine 2019cited by 136position: middledoi
Community richness of amphibian skin bacteria correlates with bioclimate at the global scale
Nature Ecology & Evolution 2019cited by 113position: middledoi
Probiotics Modulate a Novel Amphibian Skin Defense Peptide That Is Antifungal and Facilitates Growth of Antifungal Bacteria
Microbial Ecology 2019cited by 83position: firstdoi
Community richness of amphibian skin bacteria correlates with bioclimate at the global scale.
2019cited by 70position: contributordoi
Arthropod–bacteria interactions influence assembly of aquatic host microbiome and pathogen defense
Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences 2019cited by 22position: middledoi
Shifts in disease dynamics in a tropical amphibian assemblage are not due to pathogen attenuation
Science 2018cited by 179position: middledoi
Mosquito Microbiome Dynamics, a Background for Prevalence and Seasonality of West Nile Virus
Frontiers in Microbiology 2017cited by 132position: middledoi
Using decision analysis to support proactive management of emerging infectious wildlife diseases
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 2017cited by 91position: middledoi

Grants

Collaborative Proposal: RoL: The Scale of Resistance: Landscape to Microbiome-level Processes Regulating Acquired Resistance to Disease
NSF1947684$344,9652020–2024PIRePORTER
CAREER: Microbiome regulation by amphibian skin peptides
NSF1845634$1,012,8982019–2025PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 14 papers (2019–2026)C. Guilherme Becker · Pennsylvania State University8 papers (2019–2023)Rob Knight · University of California San Diego7 papers (2013–2019)Sasha E. Greenspan · Kennedy Krieger Institute6 papers (2019–2023)Molly C. Bletz · Pennsylvania State University5 papers (2018–2022) · 5 papers (2019–2023)Valerie J. McKenzie · University of Colorado Boulder5 papers (2013–2015)Jordan G. Kueneman · Cornell University4 papers (2013–2020)Holly Archer · University of Colorado Boulder3 papers (2013–2015) · 3 papers (2020–2023)Louise A. Rollins‐Smith · Georgetown University3 papers (2015–2019) · 3 papers (2020–2023) · 3 papers (2019–2023) · 3 papers (2022–2023)Miguel Vences · Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz3 papers (2020–2022)Klaus Schliep · Institute of Molecular Biotechnology2 papers (2020–2020) · 2 papers (2023–2023) · 2 papers (2020–2022) · 2 papers (2020–2020)Patrick J. Kearns · Tufts University2 papers (2020–2020)