Ecology and impacts of white-nose syndrome on bats

JR Hoyt, AM Kilpatrick, KE Langwig - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021 - nature.com
The recent introduction of Pseudogymnoascus destructans (the fungal pathogen that causes
white-nose syndrome in bats) from Eurasia to North America has resulted in the collapse of …

Fungal infections in animals: a patchwork of different situations

S Seyedmousavi, SMG Bosco, S De Hoog… - Medical …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The importance of fungal infections in both human and animals has increased over the last
decades. This article represents an overview of the different categories of fungal infections …

Evidence of region‐wide bat population decline from long‐term monitoring and Bayesian occupancy models with empirically informed priors

TJ Rodhouse, RM Rodriguez, KM Banner… - Ecology and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Strategic conservation efforts for cryptic species, especially bats, are hindered by limited
understanding of distribution and population trends. Integrating long‐term encounter …

Extreme sensitivity to ultraviolet light in the fungal pathogen causing white-nose syndrome of bats

JM Palmer, KP Drees, JT Foster, DL Lindner - Nature Communications, 2018 - nature.com
Bat white-nose syndrome (WNS), caused by the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus
destructans, has decimated North American hibernating bats since its emergence in 2006 …

Virally-vectored vaccine candidates against white-nose syndrome induce anti-fungal immune response in little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus)

TE Rocke, B Kingstad-Bakke, M Wüthrich, B Stading… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
White-nose syndrome (WNS) caused by the fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd)
has killed millions of North American hibernating bats. Currently, methods to prevent the …

A review of bat hibernacula across the western United States: Implications for white-nose syndrome surveillance and management

TJ Weller, TJ Rodhouse, DJ Neubaum, PC Ormsbee… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Efforts to conserve bats in the western United States have long been impeded by a lack of
information on their winter whereabouts, particularly bats in the genus Myotis. The recent …

Hibernacula microclimate and declines in overwintering bats during an outbreak of white‐nose syndrome near the northern range limit of infection in North America

KJ Vanderwolf, DF McAlpine - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We document white‐nose syndrome (WNS), a lethal disease of bats caused by the fungus
Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), and hibernacula microclimate in New Brunswick …

The Milieu Souterrain Superficiel as hibernation habitat for bats: implications for white-nose syndrome

KM Blejwas, GW Pendleton, ML Kohan… - Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies have revealed that western populations of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus)
in North America exhibit different hibernation behavior than their eastern counterparts …

Identifying research needs to inform white‐nose syndrome management decisions

RF Bernard, JD Reichard, JTH Coleman… - … Science and Practice, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological understanding of host–pathogen dynamics is the basis for managing wildlife
diseases. Since 2008, federal, state, and provincial agencies and tribal and private …

COVID-19 and threats to bats

MB Fenton, S Mubareka, SM Tsang, NB Simmons… - Facets, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
Bats are very diverse, including over 1400 species (Simmons and Cirranello 2020),
meaning that one in every five living mammal species is a bat. These remarkable animals …