Oct 28, 2017
It's been a little while since we've posted any updates on the project and that's mainly because we've had a couple of exciting developments, that we are still trying to make sense of. We hope to able to share these with you soon but until then please feel free to check out a short summary of the project so far which was published in the most recent edition of FrogLog.
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We're currently studying a population of the common midwife toad (Alytes obstetricans) in Cambridge, England. The species is non-native and our current goal is to screen the population for the amphibian chytrid fungus (Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis), which has been implicated in amphibian population declines worldwide. As an introduced species, the disease is one of the biggest threats to our native herpetofauna.
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