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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fisher MC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3821985 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature 20120411 7393
The past two decades have seen an increasing number of virulent infectious diseases in natural populations and managed landscapes. In both animals and plants, an unprecedented number of fungal and fungal-like diseases have recently caused some of the most severe die-offs and extinctions ever witnessed in wild species, and are jeopardizing food security. Human activity is intensifying fungal disease dispersal by modifying natural environments and thus creating new opportunities for evolution. We ...[more]