Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Probing Hellbender Health
February 21, 2023
February 21, 2023
NASHVILLE, Tennessee, Feb. 21 (TNSjou) -- Vanderbilt University Medical Center issued the following news:
large, fully aquatic salamanders found in eastern and midwestern U.S. streams and rivers -- have suffered population declines like amphibians worldwide. The Ozark hellbender subspecies is on the IUCN Red List of threatened species.
To explore the hellbender immune response to fungal pathogens that are killing amphibians, Rebecca Hardman, DVM, PhD, Louise Rollins-Sm . . .
large, fully aquatic salamanders found in eastern and midwestern U.S. streams and rivers -- have suffered population declines like amphibians worldwide. The Ozark hellbender subspecies is on the IUCN Red List of threatened species.
To explore the hellbender immune response to fungal pathogens that are killing amphibians, Rebecca Hardman, DVM, PhD, Louise Rollins-Sm . . .