Pseudogymnoascus destructans
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pseudogymnoascus-destructans-206-7132270
title:
Pseudogymnoascus destructans
text:
Pseudogymnoascus destructans is a psychrophilic (cold-loving) fungus that causes white-nose syndrome (WNS), a fatal disease that has devastated bat populations in parts of the United States and Canada. Unlike species of Geomyces, P. destructans forms asymmetrically curved conidia. Pseudogymnoascus destructans grows very slowly on artificial media and cannot grow at temperatures above 20 °C. It can grow around 4 °C to 20 °C, which encompasses the temperatures found in winter bat hibernacula. Phyl
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encyclopedia
description:
Species of fungus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudogymnoascus_destructans
date created:
2010-12-30T18:20:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T16:02:16Z
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