Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 107, No. 18 (May 4, 2010), pp. 8292-8297 (6 pages) Phenotypic differences between populations often correlate with ...

Bacteria living on the skin of frogs could save them from a deadly virus, new research suggests. Ranavirus kills large numbers of European common frogs - the species most often seen in UK ponds - and ...

Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered how changes to a frog's immune system may be the key to beating a viral infection which is devastating frog populations across the UK.

Climate change has already increased the spread and severity of a fatal disease caused by Ranavirus that infects common frogs (Rana temporaria) in the United Kingdom, according to new research.

One of Europe's most common backyard frogs has been keeping a secret that, despite centuries of study and thousands of published papers, has only now been discovered in ponds in the Pyrenees.