Bad news for frogs getting sauna therapy: The heat treatment for their fatal fungal infection may come at a cost.
Exposing infected green and golden bell frogs ( Ranoidea aurea ) to thermal therapy — a commonly used treatment technique — can compromise their sperm levels. While the frogs became disease free, their sperm concentrations substantially dropped and remained that way months later, researchers report August 4 in the Journal of Experimental Biology .
“We’ve looked at the survival of frogs after these treatments… but it’s less common that we’ve taken into account effects on reproduction,” says Cori Richards-Zawacki, an amphibian…
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