Rare high country frog future helped by genetic advance

Rare high country frog future helped by genetic advance

Conservation efforts for the critically-endangered Southern Corroboree Frog — of which only a handful survive and none are breeding in the wild — have received a major boost, with the long-awaited release of a complete genome.   “If you call to a Southern Corroborree Frog, it will answer back,” says lead author of a paper outlining the research, Dr Tiffany Kosch of the University of Melbourne. But now calls are going unanswered in the amphibian’…