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News Release 12-075
Blood Samples Show Deadly Frog Fungus at Work in the Wild
Pathogen leads to dehydration, other ill effects
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The mountain yellow-legged frog is an amphibian species affected by the chytrid fungus.
Credit: USGS
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Research site: the Sixty Lakes Basin of Kings Canyon National Park in the Sierra Nevada.
Credit: Vance Vredenburg
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Scientist Vance Vredenburg is shown with one of the frogs he and his colleagues study.
Credit: UC Berkeley
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A pair of now-rare mountain yellow-legged frogs in the Sierra Nevada mountains of Calif.
Credit: Vance Vredenburg
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An adult female mountain yellow-legged frog with a radio belt for tracking.
Credit: Vance Vredenburg
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Mountain yellow-legged frog: Disease has left it high and dry in its aquatic habitat.
Credit: Bryan Czibesz
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