Researchers find male frogs infected with fungus have more enticing calls

Friday, March 4, 2016 - 07:10 in Biology & Nature

A pair of researchers with Seoul National University has found that Japanese tree frogs infected with Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) fungus make different advertisement calls than uninfected frogs. In their paper published in The Royal Society Biology Letters, Deuknam An and Bruce Waldman explain their study and results and what impact the change in calls has on the frogs.

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