The role played by symbiotic microorganisms isolated from the skin of anurans has been discovered by researchers in Brazil. The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Estimates for this ecosystem service’s share in 2018 Brazilian economy is around US$ 12 billion. Its decline puts Brazil’s food safety and biodiversity asset at risk, warn the first-ever local diagnosis of the problem.
Lake systems existing in regions over 10 million years ago survived the Amazon River reversal due to Andean uplift.
The study is part of an effort to understand how changes in the genome lead to changes in phenotypes.
