A tale of two lineages: unexpected, long‐term persistence of the amphibian‐killing fungus in <scp>B</scp>razil

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Author: Lips, Karen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2014
• Subjects: Genetics; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Rodriguez; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12651; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fmec.12651; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/mec.12651

For the past 17 years, scientists have been compiling a list of amphibian species susceptible to infection by the amphibian‐killing chytrid fungus, B atrachochytrium dendrobatidis ( Bd ), all over the world, with &gt;500 species infected on every continent except Antarctica (Olson et al . ). Whe...