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 …

Emerging infectious disease and the challenges of social distancing in human and non-human animals

AK Townsend, DM Hawley… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The 'social distancing'that occurred in response to the COVID-19 pandemic in humans
provides a powerful illustration of the intimate relationship between infectious disease and …

[PDF][PDF] White-nose syndrome in bats

WF Frick, SJ Puechmaille… - … of bats in a changing world, 2016 - library.oapen.org
White-nose syndrome (WNS) is an infectious disease of hibernating bats that has killed
millions of bats since it first emerged in eastern North America in 2006. The disease is …

The white-nose syndrome transcriptome: activation of anti-fungal host responses in wing tissue of hibernating little brown myotis

KA Field, JS Johnson, TM Lilley, SM Reeder… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
White-nose syndrome (WNS) in North American bats is caused by an invasive cutaneous
infection by the psychrophilic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd). We compared …

The Resistance of a North American Bat Species (Eptesicus fuscus) to White-Nose Syndrome (WNS)

CL Frank, A Michalski, AA McDonough, M Rahimian… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
White-nose Syndrome (WNS) is the primary cause of over-winter mortality for little brown
(Myotis lucifugus), northern (Myotis septentrionalis), and tricolored (Perimyotis subflavus) …

Long-Term Persistence of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the Causative Agent of White-Nose Syndrome, in the Absence of Bats

JR Hoyt, KE Langwig, J Okoniewski, WF Frick… - EcoHealth, 2015 - Springer
Wildlife diseases have been implicated in the declines and extinctions of several species.
The ability of a pathogen to persist outside its host, existing as an “environmental reservoir” …

White-nose syndrome increases torpid metabolic rate and evaporative water loss in hibernating bats

LP McGuire, HW Mayberry… - American Journal of …, 2017 - journals.physiology.org
Fungal diseases of wildlife typically manifest as superficial skin infections but can have
devastating consequences for host physiology and survival. White-nose syndrome (WNS) is …

Energy conserving thermoregulatory patterns and lower disease severity in a bat resistant to the impacts of white-nose syndrome

MS Moore, KA Field, MJ Behr, GG Turner… - Journal of Comparative …, 2018 - Springer
The devastating bat fungal disease, white-nose syndrome (WNS), does not appear to affect
all species equally. To experimentally determine susceptibility differences between species …

Effect of humidity on development of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causal agent of bat white-nose syndrome

CM Marroquin, JO Lavine, ST Windstam - Northeastern Naturalist, 2017 - BioOne
The invasive fungal pathogen that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS),
Pseudogymnoascus destructans, has decimated bat populations in the United States …

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 …