Drivers of variation in species impacts for a multi-host fungal disease of bats

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 371, Issue 1709, 2016, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Emerging infectious disease; Geomyces destructans; Multi host pathogen; Myotis lucifugus; White nose syndrome; Wildlife disease

Indexed keywords

BAT; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTINCTION; FUNGAL DISEASE; HOST; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MICROCLIMATE; MORTALITY; PARASITE INTENSITY;

GEOMYCES; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS;

ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HIBERNATION; HOST RANGE; ILLINOIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; MYCOSIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; SEASON; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENT; HIBERNATION; HOST SPECIFICITY; ILLINOIS; MICROCLIMATE; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; MYCOSES; NEW ENGLAND; PREVALENCE; SEASONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84992461893     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2015.0456     Document Type: Article

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