Field surveys in Western Panama indicate populations of Atelopus varius frogs are persisting in regions where Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis is now enzootic

1Department of Biology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA 2Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA 3Department of Environmental Science Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA 4El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center, El Valle, PANAMÁ 5Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington D.C., USA 6Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, P.O. Box 0843-03092, Balboa, Ancón, PANAMÁ

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