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Yale Environment 360: Increasingly unpredictable swings in the weather are making frogs more vulnerable to the deadly chytrid fungus, according to a new study. In a series of tests, scientists at Oakland University in Michigan exposed Cuban treefrogs living under a variety of conditions in laboratory incubators to chytridiomycosis, a highly infectious fungal disease that has decimated amphibian species globally. The scientists found that frogs that were exposed to unpredictable temperature changes were more susceptible......
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Shifting Climate Makes Frogs More Vulnerable to Disease, Study Says
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 13th, 2012
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