Host and pathogen ecology drive the seasonal dynamics of a fungal disease, white-nose syndrome

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1799, 2015, Pages

  Langwig, Kate E ^a   Frick, Winifred F ^a   Reynolds, Rick ^b   Parise, Katy L ^c   Drees, Kevin P ^c   Hoyt, Joseph R ^a   Cheng, Tina L ^a   Kunz, Thomas H ^c   Foster, Jeffrey T ^d,e   Marm Kilpatrick, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries   (United States)

^c Boston University   (United States)

^d NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging infectious disease; Fungal pathogen; Hibernation; Myotis lucifugus; Seasonality; White nose syndrome

Indexed keywords

BAT; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FUNGAL DISEASE; GROWTH RESPONSE; HIBERNATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; SEASONAL VARIATION;

ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; HIBERNATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; HIBERNATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSES; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASONS; UNITED STATES;

NORTH AMERICA;

MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS;

EID: 84920971145     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2335     Document Type: Article

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