Publications by authors named "Victoria M Vazquez"
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- Different types of frogs and toads have unique ways of growing up, and their skin helps them fight off germs.
- Scientists studied 17 species at different stages of their lives to see how their skin protects them.
- They found that frogs that grow slowly and spend a long time as tadpoles make more skin defenses to fight germs, while those that grow quickly focus more on growing up fast instead of making defenses.
A researcher at the authors' institution needed to house adult bullfrogs (Rana catesbeiana) individually. The authors responded to this need by modifying 5-gallon plastic buckets to use for individual housing of bullfrogs. These buckets provided a simple, inexpensive housing system that successfully maintained healthy and behaviorally normal frogs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrom 1999 to 2006, we sampled > 1200 amphibians for the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) at 30 sites in the southeastern USA. Using histological techniques or PCR assays, we detected chytrid infection in 10 species of aquatic-breeding amphibians in 6 states. The prevalence of chytrid infection was 17.
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