{"id":501228,"date":"2026-06-15T19:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/501228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T19:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T19:24:09","slug":"young-frogs-play-it-safe-when-disease-strikes-uf-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/501228\/","title":{"rendered":"Young frogs &#8220;play it safe&#8221; when disease strikes, UF researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a frog no bigger than a fingernail, survival depends on how it spends every bit of energy.<\/p>\n<p>New research from the University of Florida shows that young frogs prioritize growing quickly even when infected with a deadly pathogen, shifting energy toward immune defense only when infections become severe. The<a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1365-2656.70282\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1365-2656.70282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">findings<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/1365-2656.70282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">,<\/a>\u00a0published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, reveal how early-life decisions about energy use shape survival, development and population health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn disease dynamics, a lot of modeling focuses on populations, but not all individuals respond the same to pathogens,\u201d said Zuania Col\u00f3n-Pi\u00f1eiro Ph.D., lead author of the study. \u201cWe\u2019re interested in understanding the mechanisms driving those differences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.ufl.edu\/2026\/06\/coqui-frogs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For a frog no bigger than a fingernail, survival depends on how it spends every bit of energy.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7644,214465,103,61,60,89],"class_list":["post-501228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-biology","tag-graduate-students","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}