Scientific efforts to reveal how an Australian frog maintains its muscle mass despite spending months or years hibernating underground could eventually lead to a dramatic reduction in the amount of feed livestock require in times of drought. Common toQueensland's dry interior, the green striped burrowing frog's vital survival trait is the subject of a new joint research project involving CSIRO Livestock Industries' scientists, Dr Nick Hudson and Dr Sigrid Lehnert, and a team of researchers from theUniversity of Queensland led by zoologist Professor Craig Franklin.
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