Reintroduction of resistant frogs facilitates landscape-scale recovery in the presence of a lethal fungal disease.

ABSTRACT: Vast alteration of the biosphere by humans is causing a sixth mass extinction, driven in part by an increase in infectious diseases. The emergence of the lethal fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) has devastated global amphibian biodiversity. Given the lack of any broadly applicable methods to reverse these impacts, the future of many amphibians appears grim. The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog (Rana sierrae) is highly susceptible to Bd infection and most R. sierrae populations are extirpated following disease outbreaks. However, some populations persist and eventually recover, and frogs in these recovering populations have increased resistance against infection. Here, we conduct a 15-year reintroduction study and show that frogs collected from recovering populations and r

SUBMITTER: Knapp RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11564713 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature