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Researchers sequenced the genome of the Western Spadefoot toad, a key species to study how organisms respond to global change

Western Spadefoot toad has a great capacity to adjust its behaviour, morphology and physiology to environmental changes. Its genome sequencing will help to understand how environmental variations can induce changes at the gene expression level.
This work was led by the Doñana Biological Station – CSIC with the collaboration of the Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG-CRG) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC-CNS)

The invasive red swamp crayfish increases infection of the amphibian chytrid fungus

Chytridiomycosis, caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), is considered one of the most important causes for the decline of amphibian populations worldwide. Identifying potential biological reservoirs and characterizing the role they can play in pathogen maintenance is not only important from a scientific point of view, but also relevant from an applied perspective (e.g. disease control strategies), especially when worldwide distributed invasive species are involved.