M from the Bezos Earth Fund to help save 25 frog species through conservation, rewilding, and disease prevention efforts ...
The African clawed frog is an evolutionary marvel — an entirely aquatic species with powerful hind legs, flattened bodies, ...
World Frog Day 2025 presents us with a chance to take action. Across the globe, events will highlight the importance of frog ...
Males of the South American species incubate their young in their vocal sacs. The London Zoo recently established a breeding ...
The team sampled the frogs’ naturally occurring skin microbes and randomly assigned them to one of six experimental groups: the frogs’ skin microbiomes were either reduced with antibiotics, augmented ...
Johnson (2011). Disease and the extended phenotype: parasites control host performance and survival through induced changes in body plan. PLoS ONE 6: e20193. PDF Johnson, P. T. J. and J. Bowerman ...
Meanwhile, nonnative predators like bullfrogs, fishes and crayfish feast on the frog and fungal disease and global forces — from elevated ultraviolet radiation to pesticides to climate change — also ...
Known populations of Darwin's frogs have suffered a 90% decline within a year since a deadly disease known as chytrid fungus arrived in 2023 in their habitat, the Parque Tantauco forests in ...
Similar systems regulate cell growth in humans and frogs, and frog research has informed a variety of human diseases, including cancer. Discoveries about nuclear size control in frogs will thus also ...