Balancing costs and benefits of managing hibernacula of cavernicolous bats

JG Boyles, V Brack Jr, LP McGuire - Mammal Review, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Manipulation of microclimates in caves and mines has gained renewed interest as a
conservation and management strategy for populations of hibernating bats devastated by …

Drivers of longitudinal telomere dynamics in a long‐lived bat species, Myotis myotis

NM Foley, EJ Petit, T Brazier, JA Finarelli… - Molecular …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Age‐related telomere shortening is considered a hallmark of the ageing process. However,
a recent cross‐sectional ageing study of relative telomere length (rTL) in bats failed to detect …

[HTML][HTML] Heterothermy and antifungal responses in bats

F Whiting-Fawcett, KA Field, SJ Puechmaille… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•Mammalian heterothermy influences host responses to fungal infections.•The
fungus, Pseudogymnoascus destructans, infects many species of hibernating bats, causing …

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 …

Effect of torpor on host transcriptomic responses to a fungal pathogen in hibernating bats

KA Field, BJ Sewall, JM Prokkola, GG Turner… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hibernation, the use of prolonged torpor to depress metabolism, is employed by mammals to
conserve resources during extended periods of extreme temperatures and/or resource …

Long‐term changes in occurrence, relative abundance, and reproductive fitness of bat species in relation to arrival of White‐nose Syndrome in West Virginia, USA

C Johnson, DJ Brown, C Sanders… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
White‐nose syndrome (WNS) is a disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus
destructans which has resulted in the deaths of millions of bats across eastern North …

Determinants of defence strategies of a hibernating European bat species towards the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans

M Fritze, SJ Puechmaille, D Costantini, J Fickel… - Developmental & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), the causative agent of white-nose syndrome in North
America, has decimated bat populations within a decade. The fungus impacts bats during …

Resistance is futile: RNA-sequencing reveals differing responses to bat fungal pathogen in Nearctic Myotis lucifugus and Palearctic Myotis myotis

TM Lilley, JM Prokkola, AS Blomberg, S Paterson… - Oecologia, 2019 - Springer
Resistance and tolerance allow organisms to cope with potentially life-threatening
pathogens. Recently introduced pathogens initially induce resistance responses, but natural …

Modelling the potential efficacy of treatments for white‐nose syndrome in bats

QE Fletcher, QMR Webber… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The fungal disease white‐nose syndrome (WNS) has caused mass mortality in some
species of North American bats during hibernation. We use population viability models to …

Long‐term exposure to an invasive fungal pathogen decreases Eptesicus fuscus body mass with increasing latitude

MC Simonis, LK Hartzler, GG Turner, MR Scafini… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Invasive pathogens threaten wildlife health and biodiversity. Physiological responses of
species highly susceptible to pathogen infections following invasion are well described …