The Origins of the Killer Fungus Driving Frogs to Extinction
Geneticists have finally found the pathogen’s ancestral home.
The arrival of a chytrid fungus can herald nothing short of catastrophe. In the past few decades, one particular type of the fungus, , or Bd, has killed off so many frogs in Australia, Europe, and the Americas that scientists have warned of an impending mass extinction. “We’ll just see lakes surrounded by hundreds if not thousands of dead or dying
