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Published online 28 November 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1264

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Saving the Majorcan midwife toad

Researchers start gearing up to mitigate the deadly amphibian chytrid fungus in the wild.

Attempts to bring back the Majorcan midwife toad (Alytes muletensis) from the edge of extinction suffered a blow.

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