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Outbreak: Rapid Appearance of Fungus Devastates Frogs, Salamanders in Panama
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=105788
"Chytridiomycosis (infectious disease caused by a fungus) is an alarming model system for disease-driven extinction of a high proportion of an entire class of vertebrates," the scientists write in PNAS. "It is no longer correct to speak of global amphibian declines, but more appropriately of global amphibian extinctions."
"We anticipated the eastward movement of the fungus, and chose a fungus-free study site near a previously infected area," she said. "Indeed, the fungus found its way there, and when it did, it quickly caused local amphibian extinctions and devastated frog and salamander biodiversity."
Hypothesize some possible ways the fungus could have traveled to the fungus-free area.
Thanks a lot Ashley-
2007-03-15
12:06:37
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