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The global amphibian extinction crisis | chytridcrisis

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The global amphibian extinction crisis. The Research Team and The Funders. One lab's fight against the froggy fungus. The global amphibian extinction crisis. The amphibians are the most threatened class of vertebrates. 32.4% of species are threatened or extinct, not including data deficient species which account for 24.5% of amphibians and of which many are likely to be in decline. The latest global amphibian assessment. 1) Hussain, Q. A., Pandit, A. K.,. Global amphibian declines: a review. You are comm...

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Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans found in the UK | chytridcrisis

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The global amphibian extinction crisis. The Research Team and The Funders. One lab's fight against the froggy fungus. Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans found in the UK. April 29, 2015. We’ve been pretty quiet with what we’ve been up to lately, and that’s because we’ve been busy working on salamanders from the U.K. which have died from. Reported in Vet Records today ( http:/ veterinaryrecord.bmj.com/content/176/18/468.2.extract. Is closely related to. Found that infected fire salamanders developed lesions...

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Bd eliminated from Mallorcan ponds | chytridcrisis

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The global amphibian extinction crisis. The Research Team and The Funders. One lab's fight against the froggy fungus. Bd eliminated from Mallorcan ponds. November 18, 2015. Fresh off the press* *. Today heralds a good day for amphibians! Bosch et al have just reported in Biology Letters their success in eliminating the chytrid fungus. From wild populations of. In Mallorca ( http:/ rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/11/20150874. It comes at a time when amphibian species are declining at an alarmin...

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Bd isolation from French Guiana | chytridcrisis

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The global amphibian extinction crisis. The Research Team and The Funders. One lab's fight against the froggy fungus. Bd isolation from French Guiana. March 3, 2015. 82 samples for the bin. BUT two samples, numbers 32 and 184, started producing zoospores and sporangia and we are now in the process of culturing them. With any luck, we’ll be able to grow up these cultures and carry out DNA sequencing to shed some more light on what type of. Is in French Guiana and that it is possible to isolate it despite ...

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French Guiana 2015: As well as the frogs… | chytridcrisis

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The global amphibian extinction crisis. The Research Team and The Funders. One lab's fight against the froggy fungus. French Guiana 2015: As well as the frogs…. February 16, 2015. Meeting the locals on a night out. The first huge excitement for me was getting to go in a helicopter for the first time – made all the more exciting by flying really low over the trees and rivers, and the pilot turning the helicopter on it’s side to turn around the meanders of the river! Being immersed in such an amazing envir...

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November | 2015 | chytridcrisis

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The global amphibian extinction crisis. The Research Team and The Funders. One lab's fight against the froggy fungus. Monthly Archives: November 2015. November 18, 2015. Bd eliminated from Mallorcan ponds. Fresh off the press* *. Today heralds a good day for amphibians! Bosch et al have just reported in Biology Letters their success in eliminating the chytrid fungus. From wild populations of. In Mallorca ( http:/ rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/11/11/20150874. It comes at a time when amphibian sp...

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Bd found in Madagascar | chytridcrisis

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The global amphibian extinction crisis. The Research Team and The Funders. One lab's fight against the froggy fungus. Bd found in Madagascar. February 27, 2015. In Nature Scientific Reports today (co-authored by our very own Prof. Mat Fisher) reveals that. Below is a summary of our lab group’s thoughts on the paper, and it’s implications for amphibian conservation and Chytrid research. Highest amphibian species richness in the world (Andreone, et al., 2008) making it megadiverse for amphibians. H...Posit...

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Chytridiomycosis and Bd | chytridcrisis

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The global amphibian extinction crisis. The Research Team and The Funders. One lab's fight against the froggy fungus. Is a fungal infection of amphibians, which causes the disease chytridiomycosis in susceptible species and populations. Bd has been implicated in the decline or extinction of at least 200 amphibian species, and has been described as “the most spectacular loss of vertebrate biodiversity due to disease in recorded history” (1). Chytrid-associated mass mortality in the Pyrenées. Simplified Bd...