Sentences with phrase «chytridiomycosis causes»

Chytridiomycosis causes amphibian mortality associated with population declines in the rain forests of Australia and Central America.

The high elevation, relatively pristine lakes of the southern Sierra Nevada (California, USA) has been the scene of massive frog die - offs from chytridiomycosis caused by the...

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The most devastating of the known amphibian diseases is chytridiomycosis, which is caused by a deadly chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd).

The African clawed frog, for example, is known to carry Bd, the fungus that causes chytridiomycosis — commonly known as chytrid — but not die of it.

The disease caused by Bd, chytridiomycosis, has led to the recent decline or extinction of 200 frog species worldwide.

Amphibian chytridiomycosis, caused by infection with the Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis fungus, is the most devastating vertebrate disease on record.

Between 1990 and 1998 the populations of several frog species crashed due to chytridiomycosis infection (chytrid) caused by the pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, but Mahony's surveys suggest that the frogs are re-establishing.

Clearing land for farms and developments has long been assailed for destroying amphibian habitats, but the main culprit in their deaths, according to the report, is chytridiomycosis, an infectious disease caused by a waterborne fungus.

Chytridiomycosis is a fatal skin disease that eventually causes convulsions, skin loss, and death in amphibians.

Bsal causes chytridiomycosis, a disease that eats away at the skin of amphibians.

The other known chytridiomycosis - causing fungus, Bd, has already caused amphibian declines and extinctions across the globe — and those declines ripple throughout ecosystems.

Chytridiomycosis is caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a species from a group of fungi called chytrids.

«This pathogen infects many different amphibian species — sometimes without causing disease — and can survive in the environment outside of its host, so it's not going away anytime soon,» said Allison Byrne, a doctoral student at the University of California — Berkeley who is studying chytridiomycosis.

Host resistance to the chytrid fungus of amphibians Amphibians in Panama have experienced declines for over a decade due to the disease chytridiomycosis, caused by the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium... AmphibiaWeb

Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans and the risk of a second amphibian pandemic Chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease (EID) caused by two fungal pathogens, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis... AmphibiaWeb

MARTEL, A., SPITZEN - VAN DER SLUIJS, A., BLOOI, M., BERT, W., DUCATELLE, R., FISHER, M. C. & OTHERS (2013) Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans sp. nov. causes lethal chytridiomycosis in amphibians.

Spread of chytridiomycosis has caused the rapid global decline and extinction of frogs.

The fatal infectious disease in question, chytridiomycosis, is caused by an aquatic fungus that only targets amphibians and is able to jump from one species to the next; it is believed to have already wiped out over 200 species.