Courses
Genetics (BIO 2450)
Applied Bioinformatics (BIO 7360Y)
Mycology (BIO 7360W)
Research Interests
Diseases of amphibians (chytrid fungus), Bacterial symbiont diversity
Selected Publications
Rodriguez, D, TM Guerra, MRJ Forstner, D Hahn. 2016. Diversity of Frankia in soil assessed by Illumina sequencing of nifH gene fragments. Systematic and Applied Microbiology 39:391-397.
Rodríguez-Brenes, S, D Rodriguez, R Ibáñez, MJ Ryan. 2016. Spread of amphibian chytrid fungus across lowland populations of Túngara frogs in Panamá. PLoS one 11 (5), e0155745.
Jenkinson, TS, C Betancourt Román, C Lambertini, A Valencia-Aguilar, D Rodriguez, C Nunes-de-Almeida, J Ruggeri, A Belasen, DS Leite, KR Zamudio, J Longcore, LF Toledo, and T James. 2016. Amphibian-killing chytrid in Brazil comprises both stable endemic and recently expanded populations. Molecular Ecology. 25: 2978–2996.
Bovo, R, D Andrade, FL Toledo, AV Longo, D Rodriguez, CFB Haddad, KR Zamudio, and CG Becker. 2016. Physiological responses of Brazilian amphibians to an enzootic infection of the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 117: 245–252.
Lambertini, C, CG Becker, TS Jenkinson, D Rodriguez, DS Leite, TY James, KR Zamudio, and LF Toledo. 2016. Local phenotypic variation in amphibian-killing fungus predicts infection dynamics. Fungal Ecology. 20:15-21.
Becker, CG, D Rodriguez, AV Longo, LF Toledo, C Lambertini, DS Leite, CFB Haddad, and KR Zamudio. 2016. Deforestation, host community structure, and amphibian disease risk. Basic and Applied Ecology 17:72-80.
Becker, CG, D Rodriguez, Lambertini, C, LF Toledo, and CFB Haddad. 2015. Historical dynamics of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Amazonia. Ecography 38:1–7.
Becker, CG, D Rodriguez, LF Toledo, AV Longo, C Lambertini, DT Corrêa, DS Leite, CFBB Haddad, and KR Zamudio. 2014. Partitioning the net effect of host diversity on an emerging amphibian pathogen. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 281:1796.
Rodriguez, D, CG Becker, NC Pupin, CFB Haddad, and KR Zamudio. 2014. Long-term endemism of two highly divergent lineages of the amphibian-killing fungus in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Molecular Ecology 23:774-787.
Rosenblum, EB, T James, KR Zamudio, TJ Poorten, D Ilut, D Rodriguez, J. Eastman, K Richards-Hrdlicka, S Joneson, T Jenkinson, J Longcore, G Parra Olea, LF Toledo, ML Arellano, E Medina, S Resprepo, SV Flechas, L Berger, C Briggs, and J Stajich. 2013. Complex history of the amphibian-killing chytrid fungus revealed with genome resequencing data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 110: 9385-9390.
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