Sentences with phrase «asian salamanders»

Asian salamanders and newts that could be harboring the fungus are traded in large numbers around the world.

During the infection experiments, they found that some Asian salamanders developed symptoms and then recovered, whereas others were completely resistant.

Studies of tiger salamanders and the Asian salamander Hynobius retardatus have found that cannibal morphs develop when larvae are crowded in large numbers and are mostly unrelated (same species but from different parents).

Not exact matches

The situation is alarming: The invasive Asian fungus has recently led to mass mortality of fire salamanders in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

Because salamanders in Europe have not evolved along with the disease, they are much more vulnerable to it than their Asian relatives.

And although American salamanders, the most diverse population in the world, have been faring well in comparison, scientists are now bracing for an extraordinary threat: an Asian chytrid fungus called Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or Bsal.

When an Asian fungus that was already devastating European salamander and newt populations was tested on a keystone American species, the eastern newt, there was 100 - percent mortality.