Science Saturday: Frog in the Fog, Part 1

Amphibians, the first land vertebrates, contain over 7,100 known species and are the most threatened group of vertebrates today. In just the last two decades an emerging infectious fungal disease has caused declines and extinctions of amphibians on a scale that has never been seen in human history.

Vance Vredenburg's lab is studying why some species are susceptible to this pathogen while others are not. His recent work focuses on the success stories: those frog populations that survived the epidemics and, in partnership with the Presidio Trust, his lab is working on restoring the amphibians that once occurred in Mountain Lake, including the California red-legged frog. He will discuss reintroduction plans for the lake ecosystem.

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