DESPITE a deadly disease that has nearly wiped out the critically endangered Alpine Tree Frog from the Snowy Mountains, a new study has found the species is fighting back by breeding more when infected.
Chytridiomycosis, a disease caused by chytrid fungus, has eradicated more than 80 per cent of the Alpine Tree Frog (Litoria verreauxii alpina) population since 1980, and almost all infected frogs di...