Scientists testing anti-fungal bacteria on diseased frogs in California

Mongabay: Researchers are treating tadpoles in Kings Canyon National Park with a bacteria they hope will provide immunity to an infamous fungal disease, reports the San Francisco Gate. The bacteria could be key not only to saving California's mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa), which is listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List, but also frog species around the planet, many of which have been decimated by the chytrid fungal disease. Scientists are pouring the anti-fungal bacterium, known as Janthinobacterium......

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