Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Chytrid

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Program DescriptionChytrid

Chyteid is a deadly fungus that is killing frogs. Once the fungus arrives at a site (pond, lake, etc) it stays in the soil.

They did a survey at eight different sites in Costa Rica and Panama.

Karen Lips, an associate professorof biology, and keven Smith and Jonathan Chase at Washington University found that the averge number of frog species at the eight different sites dropped from 45 to 23 since the apperence of Chytrid.

All species of frogs can get infected but terrestrial species fare better the frogs living in wet habitats where the fungus thrives.

"Differences in some of the frogs skin can make them more susceptible to Chyrid" says Karen Lips.

1) Do you think all the frogs will soon die off because of Chytrid?

2)Do you think it can be stopped?

Paul Miller

5 comments:

  1. I think they will all die if we dont do anything. But i think they are going to try to do something about it buacause frog are living things and they do something in life.

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  2. If the fongus keeps growing then nothing can stop the fongus from killing the frogs. If we humans have some actions then we can do something about it because we are the creatures that has the most impact on the world and can change the fact of the frogs dieing.

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  3. I think that the frog are not going to died but for the other questions it think the sientific are going to try to do something.

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  4. this is interesting because i never heard of a fungi that can do all that and also i think that this can not stop because its impossible to get rid of chydrid to stop the killings.

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  5. i think that they will all die just like alex said, but everything is dying these days just casue were not caring about our world and soon our world is going to end

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