{"id":265,"date":"2010-09-20T12:54:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T12:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=265"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:30:49","slug":"summer-research-on-wildlife-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/09\/20\/summer-research-on-wildlife-diseases\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer research on wildlife diseases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/pict0185.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-266 alignleft\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/pict0185-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/pict0167.jpg\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-269 alignnone\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/pict0167-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"229\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Yonathan Tarekegne Ararso.&#8211; Over the summer, I spent 8 weeks working on a Herpetology research project with Dr. Rachel Goodman. The project was a survey on the presence of infectious diseases <em>Ranavirus <\/em>and the chytrid fungus <em>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis\u2014<\/em>which have contributed to the significant loss of the world\u2019s amphibian &amp; reptilian population. Our survey took place on three different sites in the Prince Edward County area: Briery Creek Wild Life Management, Chalgrove Lake (HSC), and <em><span style=\"font-style: normal\">Tadpole Hole Pond (HSC). <\/span><\/em>We captured and collected data on over 170 turtles and 140 frogs. <em><span style=\"font-style: normal\">From the sites, we collected tissue samples and swabs to be tested <\/span><\/em>via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) <em><span style=\"font-style: normal\">at a laboratory in <\/span><\/em>University of Georgia, College of Veterinary   Medicine<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A significant part of the project was field work, so I learned a lot about trapping, hand capturing, collecting data, and handling amphibians and reptiles. The research and writing aspect of the project was also a great experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/pict0200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-270\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/pict0200-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/yonathan-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-271\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2010\/09\/yonathan-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yonathan Tarekegne Ararso.&#8211; Over the summer, I spent 8 weeks working on a Herpetology research project with Dr. Rachel Goodman. The project was a survey on the presence of infectious diseases Ranavirus and the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis\u2014which have contributed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/09\/20\/summer-research-on-wildlife-diseases\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions\/2259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}