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Decimated little brown bats show potential for adaptive change.
Scientific reports - 20 Feb 2020
Auteri Giorgia G, Knowles L Lacey
Abstract excerpt
The degree to which species can rapidly adapt is key to survival in the face of climatic and other anthropogenic changes. For little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus), whose populations have experienced declines of over 90% because of the introduced fungal pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS), survival of the species may ultimately depend upon its capacity for adaptive change. Here, we present evidence of...
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