A paper in Genetics today has many, many (!) authors — and they aren’t from a big multi-nation project or large genome sequencing center, but a collection of undergraduates at UCLA. Maybe they didn’t all write the paper which can be confusing to some folks, but it looks like a group effort lead to some important results. [...]
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Frogs have been having a tough time of it lately. While there are likely many contributing factors to the global frog decline, one known cause of frog dieoff is a fungal pathogen: Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis. Unfortunately, little is known about how this aquatic fungus kills frogs or how the disease was originated and spread. However, Dr. Jess Morgan and colleagues published in PNAS (open access article) [...] |
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