Resistance in persisting bat populations after white-nose syndrome invasion

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 1712, 2017, Pages

  Langwig, Kate E ^a,e   Hoyt, Joseph R ^a   Parise, Katy L ^b,c   Frick, Winifred F ^a,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 BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Geomyces; Host extinction; Little brown bat; Myotis lucifugus; Pseudogymnoascus destructans; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BAT; DISEASE INCIDENCE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS; GROWTH RATE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGEN; POPULATION DECLINE; TOLERANCE;

FUNGI; GEOMYCES; MYOTIS LUCIFUGUS; PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS;

ANIMAL; ASCOMYCETES; BAT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ILLINOIS; IMMUNOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOSIS; NEW YORK; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; VETERINARY; VIRGINIA;

ANIMALS; ASCOMYCOTA; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE RESISTANCE; ILLINOIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MYCOSES; NEW YORK; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; VIRGINIA;

EID: 85006049504     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2016.0044     Document Type: Article

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