Get out and go fungal: Why it's a bumper time to spot our native fungi
When COVID forced Melburnians to isolate during large parts of 2020 and 2021, many took the opportunity to walk around parks, creeks or remnant bush.
When COVID forced Melburnians to isolate during large parts of 2020 and 2021, many took the opportunity to walk around parks, creeks or remnant bush.
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2022
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Over the past few weeks, we've received a flurry of emails from concerned people who've seen sick and dead frogs across eastern Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
Plants & Animals
Jul 29, 2021
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Bacteria living on the skin of frogs could save them from a deadly virus, new research suggests.
Ecology
Jun 21, 2019
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A deadly disease affecting amphibians has descended into a global pandemic that has already wiped out 90 species, a prominent US biologist warned Thursday at the World Organisation for Animal Health Aquatic Conference in ...
Ecology
Apr 5, 2019
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An international study led by The Australian National University (ANU) has found a fungal disease has caused dramatic population declines in more than 500 amphibian species, including 90 extinctions, over the past 50 years.
Ecology
Mar 28, 2019
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Scientists have identified the genes of a deadly fungus that is decimating salamander and newt populations in Northern Europe.
Plants & Animals
Mar 27, 2017
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The little brown bat, a species that has been decimated by a deadly fungus, could be taking the first tentative steps to recovery, scientists say in a recent study published by Great Britain's Royal Society.
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2017
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New research from two San Francisco State University biologists is filling in some pieces of the puzzle about how a deadly fungus arrived in California and began wiping out amphibian populations.
Plants & Animals
Nov 11, 2015
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New research from the University of Toronto has scientists re-thinking how a lethal fungus grows and kills immune cells. The study hints at a new approach to therapy for Candida albicans, one of the most common causes of ...
Cell & Microbiology
Mar 31, 2015
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A deadly fungus responsible for the extinction of more than 200 amphibian species worldwide has coexisted harmlessly with animals in Illinois and Korea for more than a century, a pair of studies have found.
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2015
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