Sentences with phrase «chytrid skin fungus»

So to test for a potentially lethal chytrid skin fungus, researchers swipe the tiny body of one glass frog.

AT RISK A poison dart frog (Dendrobates auratus) in Panama is just one of hundreds of amphibian species that succumbs to the chytrid skin fungus, which scientists now know has a special trick for disabling frog immune systems.

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The research team, led by Woodhams, studied midwife toads, which live in Europe and are highly susceptible to the chytrid fungus, a skin disease that is devastating amphibian populations across the globe.

SALAMANDERS BEWARE Skin lesions on the face of a fire salamander show the ravages of a chytrid fungus species discovered last year, now suspected of escaping from Asia.

A new custom Bd genotyping assay using skin swabs The chytrid fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), affects hundreds of amphibian species around the world, yet many hundreds of species become infected yet are not... AmphibiaWeb