Invasive pathogens threaten species recovery programs
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Invasive pathogens threaten species recovery programs
Captive breeding and re-introduction is integral to the recovery of many threatened species [1], but such practices carry an associated risk of introducing exotic and potentially unknown pathogens into naïve settings. Amphibians are facing a mass extinction crisis and an emerging pathogen, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, described only in 1998, is now recognised as a principal driver of these d...
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عنوان ژورنال: Current Biology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0960-9822
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.033