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Moving Beyond the Host: Unraveling the Skin Microbiome of Endangered Costa Rican Amphibians
12 Sept 2019
Abstract excerpt
Some neotropical amphibians, including a few species in Costa Rica, were presumed to be “extinct” after dramatic population declines in the late 1980s but have been rediscovered in isolated populations. Such populations seem to have evolved a resistance/tolerance to Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), a fungal pathogen that causes a deadly skin disease and is considered one of the main drivers of worldwide...
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