Frog killer immune genes revealed

[Mark]

Scientists have taken a big step toward understanding why some frogs survive the fungal disease chytridiomycosis while others quickly die.

A group from Cornell University, US, identified genetic factors that seem to make some individual frogs immune.

This could improve captive breeding schemes, the team writes in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Full story: BBC News - Frog killer immune genes revealed

 

[eljorgo]

Very interesting news.
Thanks for sharing Mark. Would be good if many others species could adapt themselves and produce such 'protective' genes against Bd...