Prevalence of the pathogenic chytrid fungus, <i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i>, in an endangered population of northern leopard frogs, <i>Rana pipiens</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
<br><b>Background</b> <br> Emerging infectious diseases threaten naïve host populations with extinction. Chytridiomycosis, an emerging infectious disease of amphibians, is caused by the pathogenic fungus <i>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</i> (<i>Bd</i>) and has been linked to global declines in amphibians. <br> <b>Results</b> <br> We monitored the prevalence of <i>Bd</i> for four years in the Northern leopard frog, <i>Rana pipiens</i>, which is critically imperiled in British Columbia (BC), Canada. The prevalence of <i>Bd</i> initially increased and then remained constant over the last three years of the study. Young of the year emerging from breeding ponds in summer were rarely infected with <i>Bd</i>. Some individuals cleared their <i>Bd</i> infections and the return rate between infected and uninfected individuals was not significantly different. <br> <b>Conclusions</b> <br> The BC population of <i>R. pipiens</i> appears to have evolved a level of resistance that allows it to co-exist with <i>Bd</i>. However, this small population of <i>R. pipiens</i> remains vulnerable to extinction.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it