A culture-based survey of fungi in soil from bat hibernacula in the eastern united states and its implications for detection of geomyces destructans, the causal agent of bat white-nose syndrome

Mycologia

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 237-252

  Lorch, Jeffrey ^a   Lindner, Daniel ^b   Gargas, Andrea ^c   Muller, Laura ^d   Minnis, Andrew ^b   Blehert, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Center for Forest Mycology Research   (United States)

^c Symbiology LLC   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Bat; Geomyces; Skin infection; Whitenose syndrome; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

BAT; DETECTION METHOD; FUNGAL DISEASE; FUNGUS; HIBERNATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; SKIN DISORDER; SOIL MICROORGANISM;

UNITED STATES;

FUNGAL DNA; RIBOSOMAL SPACER DNA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BASIDIOMYCETES; BAT; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; GENETICS; HIBERNATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; BASIDIOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FUNGI; HIBERNATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOSES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874725353     PISSN: 00275514     EISSN: 15572536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3852/12-207     Document Type: Article

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