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Title	Wing pathology of white-nose syndrome in bats suggests life-threatening disruption of physiology
Published in	BMC Biology, November 2010
DOI	10.1186/1741-7007-8-135
Pubmed ID	21070683
Authors	Paul M Cryan, Carol Uphoff 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	15	4%
Portugal	2	<1%
Canada	2	<1%
Germany	1	<1%
Hungary	1	<1%
United Kingdom	1	<1%
Costa Rica	1	<1%
Brazil	1	<1%
Romania	1	<1%
Other	3	<1%
Unknown	343	92%

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Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Master	90	24%
Student > Bachelor	82	22%
Researcher	57	15%
Student > Ph. D. Student	37	10%
Other	24	6%
Other	49	13%
Unknown	32	9%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	205	55%
Environmental Science	52	14%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology	20	5%
Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine	16	4%
Medicine and Dentistry	10	3%
Other	28	8%
Unknown	40	11%

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

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