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Mycobiome Traits Associated with Disease Tolerance Predict Many Western North American Bat Species Will Be Susceptible to White-Nose Syndrome.
Microbiology spectrum - 3 Sept 2021
Vanderwolf Karen J, Campbell Lewis J, Taylor Daniel R, Goldberg Tony L, Blehert David S, Lorch Jeffrey M
Abstract excerpt
White-nose syndrome (WNS), a fungal disease that has caused catastrophic population declines of bats in eastern North America, is rapidly spreading across the continent and now threatens previously unexposed bat species in western North America. The causal agent of WNS, the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, can infect many species of hibernating bats, but susceptibility to WNS varies by host species. We...
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