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Hibernation temperature-dependent Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection intensity in Palearctic bats

MARTÍNKOVÁ, N. PIKULA, J. ZUKAL, J. KOVACOVA, V. BANDOUCHOVA, H. BARTONIČKA, T. BOTVINKIN, A. D. BRICHTA, J. DUNDAROVA, H. KOKUREWICZ, T. IRWIN, N. R. LINHART, P. ORLOV, O. L. PIACEK, V. ŠKRABÁNEK, P. TIUNOV, M. P ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ, JR A.

Original Title

Hibernation temperature-dependent Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection intensity in Palearctic bats

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a fungal disease caused by Pseudogymnoascus destructans that is devastating to Nearctic bat populations but tolerated by Palearctic bats. Temperature is a factor known to be important for fungal growth and bat choice of hibernation. Here we investigated the effect of temperature on the pathogenic fungal growth in the wild across the Palearctic. We modelled body surface temperature of bats with respect to fungal infection intensity and disease severity and were able to relate this to the mean annual surface temperature at the site. Bats that hibernated at lower temperatures had less fungal growth and fewer skin lesions on their wings. Contrary to expectation derived from laboratory P. destructans culture experiments, natural infection intensity peaked between 5 and 6 degrees C and decreased at warmer hibernating temperature. We made predictive maps based on bat species distributions, temperature and infection intensity and disease severity data to determine not only where P. destructans will be found but also where the infection will be invasive to bats across the Palearctic. Together these data highlight the mechanistic model of the interplay between environmental and biological factors, which determine progression in a wildlife disease.

Keywords

Chiroptera; fungal load; fuzzy regression; histopathology; thermal preference; white-nose syndrome

Authors

MARTÍNKOVÁ, N.; PIKULA, J.; ZUKAL, J.; KOVACOVA, V.; BANDOUCHOVA, H.; BARTONIČKA, T.; BOTVINKIN, A. D.; BRICHTA, J.; DUNDAROVA, H.; KOKUREWICZ, T.; IRWIN, N. R.; LINHART, P.; ORLOV, O. L.; PIACEK, V.; ŠKRABÁNEK, P.; TIUNOV, M. P; ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ, JR A.

Released

3. 12. 2018

Publisher

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC

Location

530 WALNUT STREET, STE 850, PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106 USA

ISBN

2150-5608

Periodical

Virulence

Year of study

9

Number

1

State

United States of America

Pages from

1734

Pages to

1750

Pages count

17

URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2018.1548685

BibTex

@article{BUT152177,
  author="MARTÍNKOVÁ, N. and PIKULA, J. and ZUKAL, J. and KOVACOVA, V. and BANDOUCHOVA, H. and BARTONIČKA, T. and BOTVINKIN, A. D. and BRICHTA, J. and DUNDAROVA, H. and KOKUREWICZ, T. and IRWIN, N. R. and LINHART, P. and ORLOV, O. L. and PIACEK, V. and ŠKRABÁNEK, P. and TIUNOV, M. P and ZAHRADNÍKOVÁ, JR A.",
  title="Hibernation temperature-dependent Pseudogymnoascus destructans infection intensity in Palearctic bats",
  journal="Virulence",
  year="2018",
  volume="9",
  number="1",
  pages="1734--1750",
  doi="10.1080/21505594.2018.1548685",
  issn="2150-5608",
  url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2018.1548685"
}