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Tags: amphibians chytrid crisis extinction fungus threats Photomicrograph of the skin of a Leptodactylus pentadactylus with a chytrid zoosporangium. This is the flask-shaped thing in the middle of the photo with little purple dots in the center (dots are the infectious zoospores). The pink material around the zoosporangium is one of the frog's skin cells.
Photo by: Allan P. Pessier, DVM, Dipl. ACVP
Associate Pathologist
Wildlife Disease Laboratories
Zoological Society of San Diego
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