Frogs: Canaries in the Hot Zone?
- 30 April 1999
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 284 (5415) , 729
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.284.5415.729
Abstract
Evidence is mounting that the frog die-offs--and the disturbing limb deformities seen in some populations--witnessed since the 1970s are being caused not by global environmental problems but by pathogens. A lethal chytrid fungus is the primary suspect in many massive frog die-offs (see main text), and in this issue, researchers report that a snail-borne parasite can cause some of the extra and missing limbs seen in wild frogs (pp. 731, 800, and 802).This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: