{"id":6675,"date":"2023-03-19T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-03-18T22:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2025-03-27T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:48:48","slug":"batrachochytrium-dendrobatidis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/batrachochytrium-dendrobatidis\/","title":{"rendered":"Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is <strong>a fungus<\/strong> that affects the <strong>keratin in the skin of amphibians,<\/strong> resulting in chytridiomycosis.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>initially discovered in Queensland, Australia<\/strong>, in the 1990s after several frog species were found dead.<\/li>\n<li>The fungus is believed to <strong>spread through spores <\/strong>discharged into water from amphibian skin.<\/li>\n<li>A 2019 study published in the journal Science suggests that fungal infection is to blame for the global population reduction of 39 per cent of frog species.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>most prevalent in South and Central America, Australia, and North America.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It causes death suggesting that the fungus disrupts essential functions of the frog skin (uptake of essential ions, respiration).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a Keratin?<\/h3>\n<p>Keratin is the type of protein that makes up your hair, skin, and nails. Keratin can also be found in your internal organs and glands. Keratin is a protective protein, less prone to scratching or tearing than other types of cells your body produces.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/explainers\/explained-the-killer-fungus-wiping-out-the-frog-species-12313642.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Explained: The killer fungus wiping out the frog species<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is a fungus that affects the keratin in the skin of amphibians, resulting in chytridiomycosis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6675","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}