Showing posts with label Panamanian golden frog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Panamanian golden frog. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 March 2015

Skin microbiome may hold clues to protect threatened gold frogs from lethal fungus

Date:
March 23, 2015

Source:
Virginia Tech

Summary:
New information about the relationship between symbiotic microbial communities and amphibian disease resistance has been gained through a new study. A frog-killing fungus known as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd, has already led to the decline of more than 200 amphibian species including the now extinct-in-the-wild Panamanian golden frog.

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