Scientists have taken a big step toward understanding why some frogs survive the fungal disease chytridiomycosis while others quickly die.
A group from Cornell University, US, identified genetic factors that seem to make some individual frogs immune.
This could improve captive breeding schemes, the team writes in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News
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