The Center for Native Grasslands Management (CNGM) at the University of Tennessee is looking for two seasonal field research technicians to assist graduate students with their research projects for the…
The Center for Native Grasslands Management (CNGM) at the University of Tennessee is looking for two seasonal field research technicians to assist graduate students with their research projects for the…
Newly published paper addresses transmission of the pathogen Bsal and how mathematical models are used to predict how the pathogen would spread among eastern newts.
Delaney Foster, a UT Department of Plant Sciences doctoral student, studies at the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center and researches herbicide resistance. Photo courtesy of Delaney Foster.
Eastern newt populations in the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada are at greatest risk of infection with a new skin-eating fungus, Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans (Bsal), according to a study published February 18 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by Matthew Gray of the University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, and colleagues.