Date: 5/10/2024 17:41:39
From: buffy
ID: 2202279
Subject: Treating chytrid in frogs

“Here we show that sunlight-heated artificial refugia attract endangered frogs and enable body temperatures high enough to clear infections, and that having recovered in this way, frogs are subsequently resistant to chytridiomycosis even under cool conditions that are optimal for fungal growth.”

From Nature magazine

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Date: 5/10/2024 17:44:59
From: Michael V
ID: 2202280
Subject: re: Treating chytrid in frogs

buffy said:


“Here we show that sunlight-heated artificial refugia attract endangered frogs and enable body temperatures high enough to clear infections, and that having recovered in this way, frogs are subsequently resistant to chytridiomycosis even under cool conditions that are optimal for fungal growth.”

From Nature magazine

Nice one!

:)

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Date: 5/10/2024 17:57:21
From: SCIENCE
ID: 2202285
Subject: re: Treating chytrid in frogs

good

pretty sure they were alluding to this last year

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