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Cases of valley fever are typically most prevalent in California’s Central Valley and southern Arizona, but they have been increasing in California’s central and southern coastal areas.
Dangerous fungal infections are on the rise globally. But we have few drugs that work and no prospect of anti-fungal vaccines any time soon.
It’s been a deadly summer for Australia’s wildlife. But beyond the fires, we need to act now to protect bats – which make up a quarter of Australian mammal species – from a silent overseas killer.
A proposal that all imported vegetable seeds be treated with fungicide has drawn outrage from Australia’s organic producers, who fear losing their certification.
Ultra-violet (UV) light can destroy a fungus that’s devastating the animals in North America.
Every single Cavendish banana plant worldwide is genetically identical. This vast monoculture sets them up for disastrous disease outbreaks. But researchers have ideas on how to protect the crop.
A nasty fungus killed 85% of Dominica’s mountain chicken frogs in just 18 months – but the species lives on.
More bad news for America’s beleaguered bats as white nose syndrome spreads to the West Coast. A wildlife biologist explains why this change has the bat community so worried.
Adding a single wheat gene helps the American chestnut withstand a fungal pathogen that nearly wiped these hardwood trees out of the eastern forests they once dominated.
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Teaching Fellow in Zoology and Ecology, University of Reading
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Special Professor of Phytopathology, Wageningen University
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PhD candidate in biodiversity management, University of Kent
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Professor of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor of Microbiology, Kennesaw State University
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Assistant Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis
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Professor in the Department of Environmental and Forest Biology, State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
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Professor of Animal Ecology, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor, School of Science and the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Senior Lecturer, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases, Sydney Institute for Infectious Diseases Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Horticultural Science, University of Tasmania
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Assistant Professor in Climate and Health Epidemiology , University of California, San Diego
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Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Michigan