Bat White-Nose Syndrome: An Emerging Fungal Pathogen?

By D. Blehert, Alan C. Hicks, M. Behr, C. Meteyer, Brenda M. Berlowski-Zier, E. Buckles, J. Coleman, S. Darling, A. Gargas, R. Niver and 3 more. Science, 2009

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Virology

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Introduction to Fungi (2012, background): “Another devastating parasite of animals is Geomyces destructans, a cold-loving fungus that causes 'whitenose syndrome' in bats (Blehert et al., 2009).”
Disease alters macroecological patterns of North American bats (2015, background): “White-nose syndrome (WNS), a multihost disease of hibernating bats caused by the fungal pathogen Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Blehert & Gargas) Minnis & D. L. Lindner (formerly Geomyces destructans), emerged in North America in 2006 (Blehert et al., 2009).”
Emerging fungal threats to animal, plant and ecosystem health (2012, neutral): “invasion? ~2006 [17, 18]”
Immune Suppression by Neonicotinoid Insecticides at the Root of Global Wildlife Declines (2013, background): “In 2006, the same year that beekeepers realised the full implications of the disaster of CCD, White Nose Syndrome (WNS), a virulent and fatal fungus disease of hibernating bats, came to the attention of ecologists.(54) It was first found in a cave in New York State in the winter of 2005-6 and rapidl”
The importance of temporal heterothermy in bats (2014, background): “This review was supported by funding from Jagiellonian University, the European Union under the European Social Fund and the University of New England Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) to C.S.; from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada) Discovery Grant and University of Winn”
Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators (2009, background): “Large die-offs (≤75% at some hibernacula) of bats in the genus Myotis have been reported in caves and mines in the northeastern USA, termed white-nose syndrome because a white fungus is apparent in the muzzle of dead and moribund bats (Blehert et al. 2009) (Fig.”
The ecology and emergence of diseases in fresh waters (2011, background): “canine distemper in African lions and white-nose syndrome in bats (Cleaveland et al., 2000; Miller et al., 2002; McCallum et al., 2007; Blehert et al., 2009).”
Do social networks of female northern long-eared bats vary with reproductive period and age? (2010, background): “These insights may be particularly important for northern long-eared bats, which are currently facing extirpation in northeastern USA, and likely Canada, due to the recent outbreak of a poorly understood disease known as white nose syndrome (Blehert et al. 2009).”
Patterns of acoustical activity of bats prior to and following white-nose syndrome occurrence (2011, background): “Hibernating bats with WNS exhibit dermal lesions, whereby fungal hyphae displace hair follicles and sebaceous glands, eventually breaching the epidermis (Blehert et al. 2009).”
White-nose syndrome is likely to extirpate the endangered Indiana bat over large parts of its range (2013, background): “Fungal diseases pose an emerging worldwide threat (Fisher et al., 2012), with much concern in North America paid to the conservation of hibernating bats because of the risk these taxa face from the fungal disease white-nose syndrome (Blehert et al., 2009, 2011; Foley et al., 2011).”