Bryan L. Stuart, Jodi J. L. Rowley, Somphouthone Phimmachak, Anchalee Aowphol, Niane Sivongxay
The recent introduction of a chytrid fungus endangers Western Palearctic salamanders” (31 October, p. 630), A. Martel et al. warned that a newly discovered pathogenic chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bs) likely originated in Asia and poses a threat to naïve European and North American salamander populations. However, they did not address the conservation crisis facing the apparent vector of Bs, Asian salamanders in the family Salamandridae (“newts”).
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published in 2014, English language
