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Saving the Majorcan midwife toad

Researchers start gearing up to mitigate the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus in the wild.

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Cressey, D. Saving the Majorcan midwife toad. Nature (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2008.1264

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