FROG FUNGUS
June 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIEAMERICAN scientists believe that a fungus is to blame for the accelerated decline and, in some cases, extinction of frogs and toads in north and central America and Australia James P. Collins, an ecologist and evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University told the Los Angeles Times that 32 strains of the emerging pathogen called batrachochytrium dendrobatidis have been linked to three-fourths of frogs species in decline in Costa Rica and Panama. He warned, without frogs to eat them, mosquitoes could overrun residential and recreational areas, ...
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