Frogs v fungus: time is running out to save seven unique species from disease
- Written by The Conversation Contributor
In the late 1970s in southeast Queensland, a silent killer arrived on Australian shores. The victims were our unique frogs, with the first to fall being the remarkable gastric brooding frog, last seen in 1981.
More than three decades on, we know that the killer was a disease called chytridiomycosis, caused by amphibian chytrid fungus.
This fungus is...