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Douglas C. Woodhams publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Douglas C. Woodhams sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 119 publications — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Douglas C. Woodhams D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Douglas C. Woodhams sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Douglas C. Woodhams is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Boston in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the field of Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's work spans several interdisciplinary subfields including Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, as well as Insect Science.

Douglas C. Woodhams has contributed extensively to topics such as Amphibian and Reptile Biology, Gut Microbiota and Health, Antimicrobial Peptides and Activities, Species Distribution and Climate Change, Mosquito-borne Diseases and Control, Insect Symbiosis and Bacterial Influences, and Aquaculture Disease Management and Microbiota.

Frequent publication venues include Diseases of Aquatic Organisms, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Frontiers in Amphibian and Reptile Science, Genome Biology, and Microbial Ecology.

The scientist has worked collaboratively with a number of coauthors, with the most frequent being Molly C. Bletz, Brandon LaBumbard, C. Guilherme Becker, Corinne L. Richards-Zawacki, and Amanda Tokash-Peters.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Harnessing the microbiome to prevent global biodiversity loss, 2022, Nature Microbiology
  • Host-associated microbiomes are predicted by immune system complexity and climate, 2020, Genome Biology
  • Inhibitory Bacterial Diversity and Mucosome Function Differentiate Susceptibility of Appalachian Salamanders to Chytrid Fungal Infection, 2022, Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Effects of captivity and rewilding on amphibian skin microbiomes, 2022, Biological Conservation
  • The adaptive microbiome hypothesis and immune interactions in amphibian mucus, 2023, Developmental & Comparative Immunology

Best Publications

  • Skin microbes on frogs prevent morbidity and mortality caused by a lethal skin fungus

    Reid N Harris;Robert M Brucker;Jenifer B Walke;Matthew H Becker

  • Emerging disease of amphibians cured by elevated body temperature

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford;Gerry Marantelli

  • The amphibian skin-associated microbiome across species, space and life history stages.

    Jordan G. Kueneman;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Douglas C. Woodhams;Holly M. Archer

  • Resistance to chytridiomycosis varies among amphibian species and is correlated with skin peptide defenses

    D. C. Woodhams;D. C. Woodhams;K. Ardipradja;R. A. Alford;G. Marantelli

  • Mitigating amphibian chytridiomycosis with bioaugmentation: characteristics of effective probiotics and strategies for their selection and use

    Molly C. Bletz;Andrew H. Loudon;Matthew H. Becker;Sara C. Bell

  • Microbial community dynamics and effect of environmental microbial reservoirs on red-backed salamanders ( Plethodon cinereus )

    Andrew H Loudon;Douglas C Woodhams;Laura Wegener Parfrey;Holly Archer

  • Symbiotic bacteria contribute to innate immune defenses of the threatened mountain yellow-legged frog, Rana muscosa

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Vance T. Vredenburg;Mary Alice Simon;Dean Billheimer

  • LIFE-HISTORY TRADE-OFFS INFLUENCE DISEASE IN CHANGING CLIMATES: STRATEGIES OF AN AMPHIBIAN PATHOGEN

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford;Cheryl J. Briggs;Megan Johnson

  • Ecology of chytridiomycosis in rainforest stream frog assemblages of tropical Queensland.

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford

  • Mitigating amphibian disease: strategies to maintain wild populations and control chytridiomycosis

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Douglas C. Woodhams;Jaime Bosch;Cheryl J. Briggs;Scott Cashins

  • Immune Defenses against Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, a Fungus Linked to Global Amphibian Declines, in the South African Clawed Frog, Xenopus laevis

    Jeremy P. Ramsey;Laura K. Reinert;Laura K. Harper;Douglas C. Woodhams

  • Amphibian immune defenses against chytridiomycosis: impacts of changing environments.

    Louise A. Rollins-Smith;Jeremy P. Ramsey;James D. Pask;Laura K. Reinert

  • Topographical Mapping of the Rainbow Trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) Microbiome Reveals a Diverse Bacterial Community with Antifungal Properties in the Skin

    Liam Lowrey;Douglas C. Woodhams;Luca Tacchi;Irene Salinas

  • Interacting Symbionts and Immunity in the Amphibian Skin Mucosome Predict Disease Risk and Probiotic Effectiveness

    Douglas C Woodhams;Hannelore Brandt;Simone Baumgartner;Jos Kielgast

  • Antifungal isolates database of amphibian skin-associated bacteria and function against emerging fungal pathogens

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Ross A. Alford;Rachael E. Antwis;Holly Archer

  • Population trends associated with skin peptide defenses against chytridiomycosis in Australian frogs.

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Douglas C. Woodhams;Louise A. Rollins-Smith;Cynthia Carey;Laura Reinert

  • Shifts in disease dynamics in a tropical amphibian assemblage are not due to pathogen attenuation.

    Jamie Voyles;Douglas C. Woodhams;Douglas C. Woodhams;Veronica Saenz;Allison Q. Byrne

  • PREDICTED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY IN A PANAMANIAN AMPHIBIAN ASSEMBLAGE BASED ON SKIN PEPTIDE DEFENSES

    Douglas C. Woodhams;Jamie Voyles;Karen R. Lips;Cynthia Carey

  • Antimicrobial Peptide defenses in amphibian skin.

    Louise A. Rollins-Smith;Laura K. Reinert;Chadrick J. O'Leary;Laura E. Houston

  • Probiotic treatment restores protection against lethal fungal infection lost during amphibian captivity

    Jordan G. Kueneman;Douglas C. Woodhams;Reid Harris;Holly M. Archer

Frequent Co-Authors

Louise A. Rollins-Smith
Louise A. Rollins-Smith Vanderbilt University
Reid N. Harris
Reid N. Harris James Madison University
Rob Knight
Rob Knight University of California, San Diego
Cheryl J. Briggs
Cheryl J. Briggs University of California, Santa Barbara
Ross A. Alford
Ross A. Alford James Cook University
Miguel Vences
Miguel Vences Technische Universität Braunschweig
Vance T. Vredenburg
Vance T. Vredenburg San Francisco State University
Benedikt R. Schmidt
Benedikt R. Schmidt University of Zurich
Lee Berger
Lee Berger University of Melbourne
Erin Muths
Erin Muths United States Geological Survey

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