White-nose syndrome: Is this emerging disease a threat to European bats?

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 570-576

  Puechmaille, Sébastien J ^a   Frick, Winifred F ^b,c   Kunz, Thomas H ^c   Racey, Paul A ^d   Voigt, Christian C ^e   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^e   Teeling, Emma C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DISEASE INCIDENCE; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; RESEARCH WORK; RISK ASSESSMENT; TEMPERATE ENVIRONMENT;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DERMATOMYCOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHIROPTERA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DERMATOMYCOSES; EUROPE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DENSITY;

EUROPE; NORTH AMERICA;

FUNGI; GEOMYCES;

EID: 80054055813     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.06.013     Document Type: Review

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