Katy Richards-Hrdlicka

Advisor: Jeff Powell

Selected Publications

Richards-Hrdlicka, KL.  Extracting Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis from formalin-fixed amphibian tissues, with optimizations for qPCR.  Submitted 2011.

Richards-Hrdlicka, KL, L Mohabir, JL Richardson, A Caccone.  The amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) is pervasive in the northeastern United States.  Submitted 2011.

Voyles, J, K Richards-Hrdlicka, SD Cashins, EB Rosenblum, AD Hyatt, L Berger, LF Skerratt. 2010. Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis: Requirement for further collection and archiving.  Diseases of Aquatic Oragnisms 92: 109-112.

Kerby, JL, KL Richards-Hrdlicka, A Storfer, and DK Skelly. 2010. An examination of amphibian sensitivity to environmental contaminants: are amphibians poor canaries? Ecology Letters 13: 60-67. Link: Faculty of 1000 review.

Retallick, RW, V Miera, KL Richards, KJ Field, and JP Collins. 2006. A non-lethal technique for detecting the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis on tadpoles. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 72: 77-85.

Rojas, S, KL Richards, JK Jancovich, and EW Davidson. 2005. Influence of temperature on Ranavirus infection in larval salamanders Ambystoma tigrinum. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms 63: 95-100.

Brunner, JL, KL Richards, and JP Collins. 2005. Dose and host characteristics influence virulence of ranavirus infections. Oecologia 144: 399-406.

 

Stopper, GF, KL Richards-Hrdlicka, and GP Wagner. Hedgehog signaling is required for limb outgrowth and digit identity in Xenopus: transcriptomic and morphological analysis of the effects of cyclopamine exposure. Submitted.