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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Greener MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7589487 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20201026 1
Wildlife diseases are contributing to the current Earth's sixth mass extinction; one disease, chytridiomycosis, has caused mass amphibian die-offs. While global spread of a hypervirulent lineage of the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (BdGPL) causes unprecedented loss of vertebrate diversity by decimating amphibian populations, its impact on amphibian communities is highly variable across regions. Here, we combine field data with in vitro and in vivo trials that demonstrate the presence of ...[more]