“…Strains and their descriptive statistics with regards to the zones of inhibition in Bd co-culture plate assays. to infect and may use water as a mode of infection, waiting until animals mature before mounting an infection (Bosch et al, 2023;Johnson and Speare, 2003;Kirshtein et al, 2007). Further, Boreal toad skin bacterial communities go through cycles of succession, wherein hatching from eggs and metamorphosis are developmental stages that begin as blank slates for microbial assembly (Prest et al, 2018).…”