Sentences with phrase «studying chytridiomycosis»

«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.

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The Darwin's frog (Rhinoderma darwinii) is the latest amphibian species to face extinction due to the global chytridiomycosis pandemic, according to an international study published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B.

One key research focus is studying the ecology of chytridiomycosis, whose mode of action and life cycle remain a mystery.