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Title	Wing pathology of white-nose syndrome in bats suggests life-threatening disruption of physiology
Published in	BMC Biology, January 2010
DOI	10.1186/1741-7007-8-135
Pubmed ID	21070683
Authors	Paul M Cryan, Carol Meteyer, Justin G Boyles, David S Blehert
Abstract	White-nose syndrome (WNS) is causing unprecedented declines in several species of North American bats. The characteristic lesions of WNS are caused by the fungus Geomyces destructans, which erodes and replaces the living skin of bats while they hibernate. It is unknown how this infection kills the bats. We review here the unique physiological importance of wings to hibernating bats in relation to the damage caused by G. destructans and propose that mortality is caused by catastrophic disruption of wing-dependent physiological functions. Mechanisms of disease associated with G. destructans seem specific to hibernating bats and are most analogous to disease caused by chytrid fungus in amphibians.

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Country	Count	As %
United States	16	5%
Portugal	2	<1%
Canada	2	<1%
United Kingdom	1	<1%
Costa Rica	1	<1%
Brazil	1	<1%
Germany	1	<1%
Belgium	1	<1%
Romania	1	<1%
Other	3	1%
Unknown	271	90%

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Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Master	78	26%
Student > Bachelor	69	23%
Researcher	51	17%
Student > Ph. D. Student	27	9%
Other	20	7%
Other	41	14%
Unknown	14	5%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	188	63%
Environmental Science	44	15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	13	4%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine	10	3%
Medicine and Dentistry	9	3%
Other	18	6%
Unknown	18	6%

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Wing pathology of white-nose syndrome in bats suggests life-threatening disruption of physiology

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