Pathophysiology of white-nose syndrome in bats: A mechanistic model linking wing damage to mortality

Biology Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Warnecke, Lisa ^a   Turner, James M ^a   Bollinger, Trent K ^b   Misra, Vikram ^c   Cryan, Paul M ^d   Blehert, David S ^e   Wibbelt, Gudrun ^f   Willis, Craig K R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dehydration; Geomyces destructans; Hibernation; Hypovolemia; Plasma electrolytes

Indexed keywords

BAT; DEHYDRATION; ELECTROLYTE; FUNGAL DISEASE; HEMATOLOGY; HIBERNATION; HOMEOSTASIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOLOGY; TORPOR; WING;

ACID BASE BALANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; BLOOD; CANADA; DEHYDRATION; FORELIMB; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HIBERNATION; HYPOVOLEMIA; METABOLIC DISORDER; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLASMA ELECTROLYTES; STARVATION; ANALYSIS;

DEHYDRATION; GEOMYCES DESTRUCTANS; HIBERNATION; HYPOVOLEMIA; PLASMA ELECTROLYTES;

ACID-BASE EQUILIBRIUM; ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CHIROPTERA; DEHYDRATION; HEMATOCRIT; HYPOVOLEMIA; MANITOBA; MYCOSES; STARVATION; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE; WING;

GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84880804306     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2013.0177     Document Type: Article

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