Identifying the origins of alien species has important implications for effectively controlling the spread of alien species. The black-spotted frog Pelophylax nigromaculatus, originally from East Asia, has become an a...
funded by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2016M601132)
A disease caused by the fungi Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis(Bd) and Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans(Bsal) is responsible for recent worldwide declines and extinctions of amphibian populations.The Qinghai-Tibeta...
Acknowledgements We thank Prof. An Martel at Ghent University for providing positive control samples for Bs detection by PCR. We thank Zhiqing Xu at the Chongqing Museum of Natural History for assisting with sampling. This research was supported by grants from The Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2013FYl10300) and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (code: 5132026).
For the last decade, chytridiomycosis was considered to be caused by a single species of fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), but a second chytrid species, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bs), was recen...
Supported by Science and Technology Project of National Bureau of QualityInspection of China(2012IK009)
[Objective] Chytridiomycosis has become one of the important infectious diseases of amphibians around the world since 1998. So far, amphibian chytridiomycosis has led to regional extinction of nearly 200 kinds of amph...
the ISZS international research program Biological Consequences of Global Change(BCGC)sponsored by Bureau of International Cooperation,Chinese Academy of Sciences(GJHZ200810).
Considerable controversy exists concerning whether or not climate changes(particularly global warming)are causing outbreaks of a lethal amphibian pathogen,the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis(Longcore,Pes...