Genetic analysis finds greater threat in frog-killing fungus

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Shown is a mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa) at Milestone Basin in Sequoia National Park. Credit: Photo by Vance T. Vredenburg UC Berkeley
Shown is a mountain yellow-legged frog (Rana muscosa) at Milestone Basin in Sequoia National Park. Credit: Photo by Vance T. Vredenburg, UC Berkeley

A deadly fungus that has decimated populations of mountain yellow-legged frogs in the Sierra Nevada can likely be spread by sexual reproduction, seriously complicating efforts to save the frogs from extinction, according to a new genetic analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.


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