AARK |
Amphibian Ark |
ACAP |
Amphibian Conservation Action Plan |
AFTOL |
Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life program |
AM |
Arbuscular mycorrhizae |
APHIS |
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
B.C. |
British Columbia |
BCCDC |
British Columbian Centre for Disease Control |
Bd |
Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis |
BGRI |
Borlaug Global Rust Initiative |
BWNS |
bat white-nose syndrome |
CANV |
Chrysosporium anamorph of Nanniziopsis vriesii |
CBD |
Convention on Biological Diversity |
CDC |
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention |
CFU |
colony-forming unit |
CGB |
canavanine-glycine-bromothymol blue |
CGD |
chronic granulomatous disease |
CGIAR |
Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research |
CIMMYT |
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center |
CITIES |
Convention for International Trade of Endangered Species |
DNA |
deoxyribonucleic acid |
DoD |
Department of Defense |
DoD-GEIS |
Department of Defense-Global Emerging Infections Surveillance and Response System |
DOI |
Department of the Interior |
DTRA |
Defense Threat Reduction Agency |
EID |
emerging infectious disease |
ELISA |
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay |
ENSO |
El Niño-Southern Oscillation |
EUS |
epizootic ulcerative syndrome |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
FDA |
Food and Drug Administration |
FWS |
Fish and Wildlife Service |
GAA |
Global Amphibian Assessment |
GAO |
Government Accountability Office |
GHI |
Global Health Initiative |
GOARN |
Global Outbreak and Response Network |
GPHIN |
Global Public Health Intelligence Network |
GPM |
Gaussian plume model |
GRACE |
Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment |
GRC-YR |
Global Reference Center for yellow rust |
GRRC |
Global Rust Reference Center |
HIV/AIDS |
human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome |
ICARDA |
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas |
ICRISAT |
International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics |
IHR |
International Health Regulations |
IOM |
Institute of Medicine |
IRIS |
immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome |
IRRI |
International Rice Research Institute |
ITS |
internal transcribed spacer |
IUCN |
International Union for the Conservation of Nature |
MIC |
minimum inhibitory concentration |
MLST |
multilocus sequencing typing |
NAS |
National Academy of Sciences |
NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NGO |
non-governmental organization |
NIAID |
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases |
NIH |
National Institutes of Health |
NLM |
National Library of Medicine |
NOAA |
National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration |
NSF |
National Science Foundation |
NWHC |
National Wildlife Health Center |
OIE |
World Organisation for Animal Health |
OSTP |
Office of Science and Technology Policy |
PAMP |
pathogen-associated molecular pattern |
PCR |
polymerase chain reaction |
PNW |
Pacific Northwest |
ProMED |
Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases |
RACE |
Risk Assessment of Chytridiomycosis to European Amphibian Diversity |
RVF |
Rift Valley fever |
SCBI |
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute |
SCLB |
Southern corn leaf blight |
SOD |
sudden oak death |
SSC |
Species Survival Commission |
TB |
tuberculosis |
TGen |
Translational Genomics Research Institute |
U.K. |
United Kingdom |
U.N. |
United Nations |
USAID |
U.S. Agency for International Development |
USDA |
U.S. Department of Agriculture |
USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
WHO |
World Health Organization |
WNS |
white-nose syndrome |
WTO |
World Trade Organization |