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

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 b...

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Autores principales: Cryan, Paul M, Meteyer, Carol Uphoff, Boyles, Justin G, Blehert, David S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2984388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21070683
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-135

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