Sentences with phrase «skin of the amphibians»

The moist skin of the amphibians limits them to habitats either near water or under some protection on moist ground, usually in a forest.

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

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The 1998 EU Council Directive 98/58 on the protection of animals kept for farming purposes set out minimum common standards of protection for animals of all species, including fish, reptiles, or amphibians, kept for the production of food, wool, skin, fur, or for other farming purposes.

Common garter snakes, along with four other snake species, have evolved the ability to eat extremely toxic species such as the rough - skinned newt — amphibians that would kill a human predator — thanks to at least 100 million years of evolution, according to Joel McGlothlin, an assistant professor of biological sciences in the College of Science and a Fralin Life Science Institute affiliate.

They are pinning some hope on a probiotic skin bacterium that occurs naturally on the skin of several amphibian species.

Amphibians are a group that is highly sensitive to global warming due to the permeability of their skin and their complex lifecycle, which combines an aquatic stage as larvae and a terrestrial stage when young and as adults.

Now researchers in California and Virginia have identified symbiotic bacteria living on amphibians» skins that protects them from the deadly fungal disease, and later this summer the scientists will collect some of the microbial samples, culture them in the lab, and use the product to inoculate some frogs in California's Sierra Nevada to see if the approach stops chytrid in the wild.

The aggressive fungus, which presumably came to Europe through the amphibian trade, affects the skin of the animals, leading to the formation of skin necrosis and ultimately death.

Amphibians infected by the disease have skin several times thicker than normal, which affects their ability to breathe and the transfer of electrolytes.

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.

VIOLACEIN An antifungal compound produced by bacteria on the skin of certain amphibians.

Only mature frogs secrete a protective coating of deadly toxins — so deadly, in the case of one species, that a single inch - long amphibian has enough poison on its skin to kill a hundred people.

Members of this group are usually found on underwater decaying plant or animal matter, but Bd is different — it feeds on the skin of living amphibians, primarily frogs.

Widespread Elevational Occurrence of Antifungal Bacteria in Andean Amphibians Decimated by Disease: A Complex Role for Skin Symbionts in Defense Against Chytridiomycosis — Alessandro Catenazzi — Frontiers in Microbiology

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

His current research focuses on the impacts of emerging infectious diseases on amphibians (e.g. chytridiomycosis) and the role of the amphibian skin microbiome in health and disease.

Because twenty - four of these types of amphibians are lungless and breathe through their skin, they serve as valuable indicators that help scientists determine air quality.

While I stridently caution against mixing amphibian species due to issues of toxicity, I will admit to having kept a tank populated with green tree frogs, their close cousins grey tree frogs and fire - bellied toads (a misnamed Asiatic frog with a rough skin) that thrived for more than a decade.

Published in the Jan. 12 issue of the journal Nature, the study reveals how the warming may alter the dynamics of a skin fungus that is fatal to amphibians.

Over 112 species of amphibians have vanished since 1980, the major reason being rising temperatures that have allowed the growth of a fungus that kills frogs by attacking their skin and teeth and releasing a poison.