Cryptic diversity of a widespread global pathogen reveals expanded threats to amphibian conservation [Applied Biological Sciences]
Biodiversity loss is one major outcome of human-mediated ecosystem disturbance. One way that humans have triggered wildlife declines is by transporting disease-causing agents to remote areas of the world. Amphibians have been hit particularly hard by disease due in part to a globally distributed pathogenic chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis [Bd])....
Source: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Category: Science Authors: Allison Q. Byrne, Vance T. Vredenburg, An Martel, Frank Pasmans, Rayna C. Bell, David C. Blackburn, Molly C. Bletz, Jaime Bosch, Cheryl J. Briggs, Rafe M. Brown, Alessandro Catenazzi, Mariel Familiar Lopez, Raul Figueroa–Valenzuela, Sonia L. Ghose, Tags: Biological Sciences Source Type: research