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In battle to save salamanders from killer fungus
2016-06-08 11:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Nature Network: In battle to save salamanders from killer fungus, scientists hit the ground running. Amphibians just can't seem to catch a break. As if habitat destruction, pollution, pesticides and introduced predators weren't enough to usher them into a modern-day mass extinction, this diverse class of semi-aquatic creatures now has another deadly invasive disease to contend with: Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans, or "Bsal" for short. First described in 2013, Bsal is an invasive fungus that deals exclusively...
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