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Tropical frogs found to coexist with deadly fungus
- October 05, 2018
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In 2004, the frogs of El Copé, Panama, began dying by the thousands. The culprit: the deadly chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Within months, roughly half of native frog species there went locally extinct. A new study suggests that frogs remaining in El Copé developed the ability to coexist with chytrid fungus due to ecological and/or evolutionary changes. The results could mean good news for other areas hit hard by chytrid fungus.
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"Tropical frogs found to coexist with deadly fungus", MachPrinciple, October 05, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/Tropical-frogs-found-to-coexist-with-deadly-fungus
