Savage world for frogs: Biologist discovers clues about frog deaths
Wednesday, March 23, 2016 - 12:30
in Biology & Nature
A researcher is obsessed with frogs and figuring out why they are dying at an unprecedented rate around the world. Her latest research suggests that natural selection as well as other evolutionary forces have shaped the evolution of immune genes in lowland leopard frog populations helping them survive a deadly fungus that's killing off many other species worldwide.