| A combination of factors—habitat destruction, climate change, a lethal disease called chytrid fungus puts them under stress. |
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| However, published data for hydrogenosomes in trichomonads, ciliates, and chytrid fungi are consistent with them sharing common ancestry with mitochondria. |
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| Habitat loss and degradation is the major threat, but a disease called the amphibian chytrid fungus is also devastating amphibian populations. |
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| Human movement of amphibians may explain the distribution of the highly pathogenic chytrid fungus around the world. |
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| The global spreading of the chytrid fungus, causing a fungal skin infection resulting in death for whole frog populations, is a new massive threat for these amphibians. |
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| In 1999, Pessier and others identified that Bd, a chytrid fungus, was the cause. |
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| Infection of an invasive frog Eleutherodactylus coqui by the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Hawaii. |
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| On top of chytrid, amphibians also face deforestation, habitat destruction, air and water pollution, pesticides, invasive species, a sometimes predatory pet trade and climate change. |
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| If there is no resistance then the accidental introduction of chytrid to Madagascar would have a devastating effect on such an important and unique group of animals. |
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| Smooth newts are also potential transmitters of chytrid fungus, because a close relative of the newt carries this disease. |
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| Scientists blame chytrid, which kills amphibians by seeping in through their skin and leads to heart failure, for wiping out dozens of species and putting hundreds, maybe thousands, at risk. |
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| Parts of Central America, the tropical Andes of South America, and even Australia, have also all experienced marked losses, in particular due to the impact of the deadly chytrid fungus on amphibians. |
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| It has been classified as Vulnerable due to habitat loss but is also likely to be susceptible to climate change impacts because of the likelihood of infection by chytrid fungus which is affecting many amphibians. |
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| Parks Canada also looked for chytrid fungus at Cottonwood Slough. |
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| Amphibian chytrid fungus broadly distributed in the Brazilian Atlantic rain forest. |
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| Whether Chlamydia was the primary pathogen responsible for the die-off or served as a cofactor with the chytrid fungus or other parasites was difficult to determine. |
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| The Effects of Anthropogenic Chemicals on the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus in Culture. |
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| Chytrid skin fungi, which have devastated frogs in parts of Australia and Central America, have now turned up in the wild in the United States. |
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| Chytrid fungi are common pathogens of plants and insects but had never before been known to attack vertebrates. |
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| Chytrid fungus has decimated frog populations worldwide, and caused extinctions and widespread declines in Australian frogs. |
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