{"id":1415,"date":"2014-05-06T17:53:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T22:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2014-05-08T09:01:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T14:01:23","slug":"will-a-deadly-fungus-wipe-out-frogs-in-your-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/will-a-deadly-fungus-wipe-out-frogs-in-your-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Will a deadly fungus wipe out frogs in your area?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1407\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Atelopus-amplexus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1407\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Atelopus-amplexus.jpg\" alt=\"Amphibians - such as this mating pair of toads of the genus Atelopus - are threatened by fungal infections. A new mathematical model helps predict the local consequences of a given outbreak (Photo credit: Margarita Lampo)\" width=\"400\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Atelopus-amplexus.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Atelopus-amplexus-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1407\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amphibians &#8211; such as this mating pair of toads of the genus Atelopus &#8211; are threatened by fungal infections. A new mathematical model helps predict the local consequences of a given outbreak (Photo credit: Margarita Lampo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic; color: #000000;\">Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> is a fungus that causes a deadly skin disease in frogs and other amphibians, and is one of the factors contributing to the global decline of amphibians. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new mathematical model shows that the reproduction quotient &#8211; that is, the average number of new spores produced by an initial spore over its lifetime &#8211; is the best predictor of whether a given strain will cause local extinction. The finding could help conservation groups.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org\/content\/281\/1785\/20132783\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/content\/344\/6183\/495.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a>published in the\u00a0<em>Proceedings of the Royal Society B<\/em><i>\u00a0<\/i>on\u00a0<strong>May 6, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zoology.ubc.ca\/~louca\/HomePage\/lib\/php\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Stilianos Louca<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, University of British Columbia, British Columbia<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is a fungus that causes a deadly skin disease in frogs and other amphibians, and is one of the factors contributing to the global decline of amphibians. A new mathematical model shows that the reproduction quotient &#8211; that is, the average number of new spores produced by an initial spore over its lifetime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[174,113,125,171,215,917,1282,1328],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-british-columbia","tag-ecology","tag-environment","tag-evolution","tag-extinct","tag-fungus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Atelopus-amplexus.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-mP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1432,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}