From frog saunas to medicated baths: Scientists battle a global amphibian plague | CNN What may sound like a spa day for frogs is all part of a global effort to fight the chytrid fungus — the deadly pathogen responsible for what scientists have called the largest disease-driven loss of ...

The #global struggle against #chytrid
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My take on these issues as well as #Darwin #frog from #Chile here
nkozphoto.com/index.php/20... #Climate #frogs #wildlife #science #evolution #amphibians

Sick Hops: How #infection boosts jumping ability in a threatened #frog species zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #chytrid #amphibians #wildlifehealth

Good luck Dua Leaper: scientists return frogs wiped out by fungal disease to wild Researchers dig ‘spas’ and install ‘saunas’ in ACT wetlands to give green and golden bell frogs the best chance of survival

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... #frogs #chytrid

You have to read the fine print, but technically, #zoosporic #eufungi are on today's @wikipedia.org Featured Page.
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#blastoclads #Blastocladiales #Blastocladiomycota #chytrids #chytrid #fungi #mycology #fungal #fungus #zoospore #aquaticfungi
@iucnfungi.bsky.social @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social

Heated #aquatic shelters reduce #infection intensity but not prevalence of a fungal #pathogen in common #toad tadpoles - #OpenAccess zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #chytrid #Bufonidae @wileyecology.bsky.social

The diversity and abundance of chytrids on the Greenland Ice Sheet – new quantitative data Zoosporic fungi of the Chytridiomycota phylum are lethal parasites of algae in Arctic freshwater and marine environments, and their presence has been confirmed as dominant fungi in various habitats on...

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The diversity and abundance of chytrids on the Greenland Ice Sheet – new quantitative data
Some really cool (🤦) #chytrid stuff from @alexanesio.bsky.social, featuring Clydaea vesicula, which I named in 2009 after my mother Clyda Rae Simms Simmons.
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Our first Tham Lab photo with Megan Outram and Grace Jones @biologyanu.bsky.social

🐸 We want to understand how chytrid fungus infects frogs using structural biology, nanobodies & genetic engineering

Excited to be branching out to fungal diseases

#chytrid #nanobodies #fungus #effector

#Chytrid fungus and #ranavirus jeopardize amphibian well-being.

We present a novel duplex #eDNA assay to detect both simultaneously from water samples.

We also show that the presence and density of #invasive #bullfrogs is related to that of chytrid fungus, but not ranavirus, in space and time 🐸

The Waiting Karen Lips is researcher and lives for several years in a tiny little shack in Costa Rica to observe frogs. When she leaves the cloud forest for a short time and…

Hey, you being such an outdoors guy: Do you know whether #chytrid has reached #Michigan #frogs yet? Saw a good #documentary about it last week. Had never heard of it before then. Here it is. vimeo.com/1036802517

Does salt reduce #chytrid infection risk in green and golden bell frogs? Alex Callen says that although frogs are preferentially selecting the salty ponds, chytrid infection is more complex, factoring in choice, contingency & connectivity. #ICCB2025

Australia’s critically endangered alpine tree frogs use sex to fight killer fungus Infected males produce higher-quality sperm, display brighter throat patches and sire nearly a third more offspring

Endangered alpine #tree #frogs use #sex to fight killer #fungus ...

| #fungi | #chytridiomycosis | #chytrid | #Australia | #infection | Via @theguardian.com‬

Science road trip to discuss chytrid, frogs + effectors 🐸

Fun visit with MeganOutram to learn all things chytrid from Lee Berger & Lee Skerratt - very interesting links between plant fungal pathogens and chytrid - excited to get this program going @biologyanu.bsky.social
#chytrid #plants #effector

Red swollen dots on a flower bud

Stork's-Bill Chytrid
Synchytrium papillatum

Found this weekend at Blue Oak Ranch Reserve run by UCB. Thu’s basal lineage of fungi is most known for attacking water associated organisms like frogs and salamanders but with enough moisture they’ll go after plants too #chytrid #fungi #galls

Today is #WorldFrogDay AND #WorldSparrowDay!?!
What a #chytrid crossover!!!
#Batrachochytrium = amphibian pathogen🐸
Frederick K. Sparrow = #mycologist💧🍄🔬
Coincidence?!?!

Happy #WorldFrogDay!
May all of your #chytrid infections be sublethal.
#chytrids #Bd #Batrachochytrium #fungi #fungus

Amphibian Declines Increase Malaria In Costa Rica And Panama New studies quantify how intact ecosystems improve human health

Amphibian Declines Increase Malaria In Costa Rica And Panama: www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

#malaria #publichealth #chytrid #ecohealth #onehealth #disease #savethefrogs #amphibians

Today I’m at Copenhagen Zoo for a symposium on management of Danish #amphibians in the face of #chytrid. I’m excited to see this momentum to get a grip on the situation here, and understand its possible consequences.

Will @jandbio.bsky.social help get us a #chytrid emoji!?!
#fungi @iucnaquafungi.bsky.social @iucnfungi.bsky.social ##zoosporicfungi #chytrids

Exploring Diversity within Chytridiales and Rhizophydiales (Chytridiomycota) in Korea Chytridiomycota is the most species-rich phylum of basal lineage fungi with a worldwide distribution. Its species constitute essential components of freshwater ecosystems. However, the diversity of...

New #chytrid species Rhizophydium multiplex from Korea.
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#chytrids #FungusFriday #FungalFriday #FungiFriday
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#horrorai #weird #dark #thenewflesh #AIArt #AIArtist #AIArtwork #GenerativeArt #DigitalArt #AIArtGallery #AIGeneratedArt #AIArtCommunity #monster #horrorart #digitalart #fantasyai #synthart #lovecraft #airt #chytrid #amphibian #fruitingbody #fungus

A Few Hours Ago, This Was a Normal #frog

When a #chytrid loses its tail, it just regrows a few dozen.
Very cool work from the @stearnslab.bsky.social et al.!
#chytrids #fungi #MycoMonday #mycology
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It’s the first #frogfriday for 2025, so what better way then to share our new preprint 🐸🍄

We exposed corroboree frogs to a low dose of #chytrid to detect variation in individual responses using a genetic representation of almost the entire species… ⬇️

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Yay, our #chytrid research will continue! I am happy to be awarded another DFG research grant while my student
@paulinethome.bsky.social received a PhD scholarship. Congrats to Pauline... and myself ;)

Post-Doctoral Research Assoicate (KB) at Queen Mary University of London Recruiting now: Post-Doctoral Research Assoicate (KB) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Join my group @blizardinstitute.bsky.social for a 3 year #post-doc position exploring skin #microbiome assembly and colonisation of #chytrid fungi in amphibians. Part of a super exciting new collaboration with the glycoscience laboratory @imperialmed.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS023/p...

It’s lunch time! 😋 Here we can see a filament of Planktothrix and many #chytrid zoospores trying to infect it... while some others have already succeeded 😬
#postdoclife

Here they are, #chytrid sporangia attached to #desmids 😀
#protists #parasites

Bought 12 power banks to drive 6 mosquito traps. Loads of logistics before traveling to Borneo, studying interactions with #amphibians #chytrid #Bd

More than mushrooms—what do the mycologists at Purdue study? Mushrooms, whether eaten, used medicinally or in art, are deeply intertwined with global cultures. But they actually constitute a small piece of the fungal world. Mushrooms are the fruiting body of fu...

Read up on the Aime Lab and #Purdue #Herbaria over some coffee, and thank your coffee rust researchers!
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#MycoMonday #MycologyMonday #fungi #rustfungi #aquaticfungi #chytrids #chytrid #Bd #Batrachochytrium
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Anthony's idea for frog-saving 'saunas' went global. Can he harness his viral moment? At least 90 species of frogs have been made extinct by chytrid fungus worldwide. But a program to protect other frogs with  "saunas" made of bricks is proving promising.

Frog saunas! Simple, mini greenhouses keep frogs warm in winter and help them fight off deadly fungal infections. Bonus points for the researcher being called Dr Waddle.

#Frogs #Conservation #Environment #Science #Wildlife #Chytrid

Frog ‘Saunas’ Help Endangered Frogs Survive A Deadly Fungal Pandemic, via Macquarie University + University of Melbourne, published by Nature

by @GrrlScientist

#amphibians🐸 #chytrid #mycology #ecology🌏 #conservation💉 #epidemiology🛟 #SciComm🧪 www.forbes.com/sites/grrlsc...