Museum specimens solve Brazil frog die-off mystery as study links 1970s losses to chytrid fungus
Smithsonian and Penn State researchers traced the likely arrival of a lethal amphibian pathogen at Boracéia, helping explain decades-old disappearances in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. KEY TAKEAWAYS Museum specimens show no chytrid infection before 1979 at Boracéia, but more than half of 1980s specimens tested positive. Th…
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