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A Multifaceted Approach Reveals Complex Genomic Mediation of White-Nose Syndrome Adaptive Response in the Little Brown Bat (Myotis lucifugus).
Molecular ecology - 1 Sept 2026
Capel Samantha L R, Fraser Devaughn L, Field Kenneth A, Reeder DeeAnn M, Russell Amy L, Sudmant Peter H, Vazquez Juan Manuel, Vonhof Maarten J, Lilley Thomas M, Buchalski Michael R
Abstract excerpt
Novel pathogens have become a major challenge faced by wildlife in the Anthropocene. White-nose syndrome (WNS) has decimated bat populations across North America over the last two decades. Demographic and physiological evidence of adaptation in one heavily affected species, Myotis lucifugus, has prompted multiple attempts to delineate the genomic underpinnings, but these studies show little congruence in their...
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- Animals
- Chiroptera
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Selection, Genetic
- Mycoses