Understanding and managing resistance to the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in Australian tropical rainforest frogs

真菌性疾病壶菌病可以感染至少48种澳大利亚本土青蛙物种，并根据联邦环境保护和生物多样性保护法被列为一种威胁过程。 1979年至1994年期间，它导致昆士兰州12种青蛙物种的灾难性下降，并可能是大多数州更多物种持续下降的原因。 一些物种和种群在减少后又恢复了，表明它们对疾病的抵抗力有所提高。 了解这些抵抗力的增加应该使我们能够开发控制其他物种疾病的方法，帮助保护澳大利亚免受这种侵入性和高度破坏性疾病的侵害。

The fungal disease chytridiomycosis can infect at least 48 Australian native frog species and is listed as a threatening process under the federal Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act. It caused catastrophic declines in 12 frog species in Queensland between 1979 and 1994, and is probably responsible for continuing declines in many more species in most states. A few species and populations have recovered following declines, indicating that they have increased their resistance to the disease. Understanding these increases in resistance should allow us to develop ways to control the disease in other species, helping to protect Australia against this invasive and highly destructive disease.