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Old 03-23-2015, 12:20 PM   #1
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Skin microbiome may hold clues to protect threatened gold frogs from lethal fungus

New information about the relationship between symbiotic microbial communities and amphibian disease resistance has been gained through a new study. A frog-killing fungus known as Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, or Bd, has already led to the decline of more than 200 amphibian species including the now extinct-in-the-wild Panamanian golden frog.



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