Research by Joyce Longcore, a mycologist and associate research professor at the University of Maine, was mentioned in The Atlantic article, “Why are some frogs surviving a global epidemic?” In the early 2000s, Longcore was one of the only experts on a division of fungi called Chytridiomycota, or chytrids, and she identified a new genus read more Longcore’s research cited in The Atlantic article on frogs, killer fungus