The chytrid fungus, which is responsible for the collapse of numerous amphibian populations as well as the extinction of entire species, has been located for the first time in India, according to a paper inHerpetological Review. Researchers took swabs of frog in the genus
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BLOOMINGTON — There’s a bit of Indiana Jones in the life of assistant biology professor Edgar Lehr, but where Jones hated snakes, Lehr loves them. He’s a herpetologist who teaches about amphibians and reptiles at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.
The chance discovery of a previously thought to be extinct species of frog has led James Cook University researchers to believe amphibians may have found a way to survive a devastating and fatal infection.
Lose species and you’re losing more than you might think, a new study by Oregon State University researchers finds.
Forty percent of all the frogs in the world are in danger of extinction, according to the Smithsonian Institution. Pollution, pesticides, climate change and now a fungus are taking a toll on this diverse group of amphibians. Until recently, the central rain forest of Panama
Researchers at the Oregon State University have discovered a freshwater organism that might be the key to fight a fungus, which is the principal cause for the worldwide amphibian decline.
On a warm July morning, two biologists and three volunteers scramble up an alpine valley on the Williams Fork of the Colorado River, high in the Colorado Rockies. Their boots, scrubbed with disinfectant at 6 a.m.,
Sabri Ben-Achour’s story for American University Radio in Washingon, D.C., highlights the role a fungus called chytrid plays in the intensifying amphibian die-offs and extinctions occurring globally. By some estimates, the fungus was associated with 94
Frogs beware: Chytrid – a deadly fungus that causes a disease called chytridiomycosis that has been linked to a devastating amphibian population decline all over the world – has been detected on Nantucket.
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