Identify DNA to avoid mating to save frogs from extinction

(what is it?) - What happens if two other frogs mate with each other because they are confused, and then discover that they are not identical and cannot reproduce? Researchers from the Panama Amphibian Conservation Project of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute are racing to conserve frogs by breeding them in captivity and doing DNA tests to avoid coordination. like the wrong species.

At the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center (Panama), scientists have kept 11 different frog species threatened by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis , which has lost many of the world's amphibian populations. gender. Scientists hope that one day they will be able to return frogs to streams in the Panama Plateau.

Different frog species may look very similar.'If we accidentally choose two other species of frogs to give them mating, we may not succeed, or not know how to create a new species of frog that is not adapted to the natural habitat of the species. The original frog , 'said researcher Andrew J. Crawford, a collaborator at the Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Crawford and his colleagues used DNA barcode technology to classify frogs, by comparing the order of genes in frog skin cells.

New frog genetic discoveries contribute to the protection of frogs from extinction - the task of the amphibian conservation project, with the participation of many institutions around the world.