Ecology and impacts of white-nose syndrome on bats

JR Hoyt, AM Kilpatrick, KE Langwig - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The recent introduction of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (the fungal pathogen that causes
white-nose syndrome in bats) from Eurasia to North America has resulted in the collapse of …

Investigating and managing the rapid emergence of white‐nose syndrome, a novel, fatal, infectious disease of hibernating bats

J Foley, D Clifford, K Castle, P Cryan… - Conservation …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
White‐nose syndrome (WNS) is a fatal disease of bats that hibernate. The etiologic agent of
WNS is the fungus Geomyces destructans, which infects the skin and wing membranes …

Experimental infection of bats with Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome

JM Lorch, CU Meteyer, MJ Behr, JG Boyles, PM Cryan… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
White-nose syndrome (WNS) has caused recent catastrophic declines among multiple
species of bats in eastern North America,. The disease's name derives from a visually …

Disease alters macroecological patterns of N orth A merican bats

WF Frick, SJ Puechmaille, JR Hoyt… - Global Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We investigated the effects of disease on the local abundances and distributions of
species at continental scales by examining the impacts of white‐nose syndrome, an …

[HTML][HTML] Potential for spread of the white-nose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) in the Americas: use of Maxent and NicheA to assure strict model transference

LE Escobar, A Lira-Noriega, G Medina-Vogel… - Geospatial …, 2014 - geospatialhealth.net
Emerging infectious diseases can present serious threats to wildlife, even to the point of
causing extinction. White-nose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) is causing an …

[HTML][HTML] Frequent arousal from hibernation linked to severity of infection and mortality in bats with white-nose syndrome

DAM Reeder, CL Frank, GG Turner, CU Meteyer… - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
White-nose syndrome (WNS), an emerging infectious disease that has killed over 5.5 million
hibernating bats, is named for the causative agent, a white fungus (Geomyces destructans …

Culturable mycobiota from Karst caves in China II, with descriptions of 33 new species

ZF Zhang, SY Zhou, L Eurwilaichitr, S Ingsriswang… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Karst caves are characterized by darkness, low temperature, high humidity, and oligotrophic
organisms due to its relatively closed and strongly zonal environments. Up to now, 1626 …

Phylogenetic evaluation of Geomyces and allies reveals no close relatives of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, comb. nov., in bat hibernacula of eastern North …

AM Minnis, DL Lindner - Fungal biology, 2013 - Elsevier
White-nose syndrome (WNS) of bats, caused by the fungus previously known as Geomyces
destructans, has decimated populations of insectivorous bats in eastern North America …

[HTML][HTML] Temperature-Dependent Growth of Geomyces destructans, the Fungus That Causes Bat White-Nose Syndrome

ML Verant, JG Boyles, W Waldrep Jr, G Wibbelt… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an emergent disease estimated to have killed over five
million North American bats. Caused by the psychrophilic fungus Geomyces destructans …

[图书][B] The fungal community: its organization and role in the ecosystem

J Dighton, JF White - 2017 - taylorfrancis.com
"… a number of chapters provide excellent summaries of the modern methods available for
studying fungal ecology, along with those more traditional methods that are still extremely …