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Waters near croplands impair frogs' immunity.(Brief article)
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Pesticide-containing waters leave frogs more susceptible to fungal infections than pristine environments do, new field data suggest.
Tyrone Hayes and his collaborators at the University of California, Berkeley located tadpoles of Rana aurora, a protected frog species, at three sites in California. One site was upstream of any farm and had a comfortable water depth for tadpoles, about 2 feet. Another site, also upstream of agriculture, was so shallow that some frogs were exposed to air, causing some dryness-related distress. The third site was in Salinas Valley, a major area ...
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