Pan-European distribution of white-nose syndrome fungus (Geomyces destructans) not associated with mass mortality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Puechmaille, Sébastien J ^a   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^b   Korn, Vanessa ^c   Fuller, Hubert ^a   Forget, Frédéric ^d   Mühldorfer, Kristin ^b   Kurth, Andreas ^e   Bogdanowicz, Wieslaw ^f   Borel, Christophe ^g   Bosch, Thijs ^h   Cherezy, Thomas ⁱ   Drebet, Mikhail ^j   Görföl, Tamás ^k   Haarsma, Anne Jifke ^l   Herhaus, Frank ^m   Hallart, Guénael ⁿ   Hammer, Matthias ^o   Jungmann, Christian ^p   Le Bris, Yann ^q   Lutsar, Lauri ^r   Masing, Matti ^s   Mulkens, Bart ^t   Passior, Karsten ^q   Starrach, Martin ^q   Wojtaszewski, Andrzej ^u   Zöphel, Ulrich ^v   Teeling, Emma C ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Office for Faunistic and Landscape Ecology   (Germany)

^d Association Natagora   (Belgium)

^e ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (Poland)

^g Polish Academy of Sciences ^*  (France)

^h Dutch Bat Workers Group   (Netherlands)

ⁱ Dutch Bat Workers Group ^*  (France)

^j Podilski Tovtry National Nature Park   (Ukraine)

^k Nature Conservation Foundation of Tolna County   (Hungary)

^l WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^m Biology Station Oberberg   (Germany)

ⁿ Société d'Etude et de Protection de la Nature en Thiérache Le Chaudron   (France)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^p Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Rhineland Palatine   (Germany)

^q Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union Rhineland Palatine ^*  (Germany)

^r Eestimaa Looduse Fond   (Estonia)

^s Sicista Development Centre   (Estonia)

^t Bat Working Group   (Belgium)

^u INSTITUTE OF NATURAL FIBRES AND MEDICINAL PLANTS   (Poland)

^v Saxonian State Office for Environment Agriculture and Geology   (Germany)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; FUNGUS ISOLATION; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ROMANIA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); WHITE NOSE SYNDROME; ANIMAL; HIBERNATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

FUNGI; GEOMYCES;

AMERICAS; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; EUROPE; HIBERNATION; MYCOSES; SEASONS;

EID: 79955691716     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019167     Document Type: Article

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