Scientists are identifying additional species of Geomyces and describing development of a highly sensitive DNA-based technique for early identification of Geomyces destructans on bats as well as in ...

Even after researchers studying White Nose Syndrome (WNS) established that a fungus called Geomyces destructans is at the heart of the devastating disease, detecting it depended largely on finding ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have proven that the fungus Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome, a fast-spreading and highly lethal disease of bats. Research published today (Wednesday, Oct.

The same fungal species wiping out hibernating American bats also strikes their European kin — although it doesn’t kill them. But that’s not because the European strain of the fungus that causes white ...

A team of U.S. Forest Service scientists and partners have discovered a vital new early-warning tool for detecting the presence of a fungus that is wiping out bat populations east of the Mississippi ...

Scientists have discovered that the fungus Geomyces destructans is the cause of deadly white-nose syndrome (WNS) in bats, according to new research. The study provides the first direct evidence that ...

First identified in 2005, white-nose syndrome has killed over a million bats in the US, pushing once common species to the edge of collapse and imperiling already-endangered species. Striking when ...

Bats in North America are under attack. Since 2006, more than a million have been killed. Little has been done to save them, because there has not been enough evidence to implicate the suspect—until ...

Earlier this year, Smithsonian magazine published a story by Michelle Nijhuis about white-nose syndrome, the disease that is devastating U.S. bat colonies in catastrophic numbers: The disease was ...

MADISON, Wis., March 13, 2013 – Even after researchers studying White Nose Syndrome (WNS) established that a fungus called Geomyces destructans is at the heart of the devastating disease, detecting it ...

LOS ANGELES — Researchers say they have proof a fungus discovered in 2007 is responsible for white-nose syndrome, the infectious disease that has killed more than 1 million bats in North America. The ...