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Volume 21, Number 6—June 2015
Dispatch

Invasion Dynamics of White-Nose Syndrome Fungus, Midwestern United States, 2012–2014

Kate E. Langwig1, Jiang Feng1, Katy L. Parise, Joe Kath, Dan Kirk, Winifred F. Frick, Jeffrey T. Foster, and A. Marm KilpatrickComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA (K.E. Langwig, J.R. Hoyt, W.F. Frick, A.M. Kilpatrick); Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA (K.L. Parise, J.T. Foster); Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Springfield, Illinois, USA (J. Kath, D. Kirk); University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, USA (J.T. Foster)

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Figure 1

Pseudogymnoascus destructans prevalence (±1 SE, calculated from the variance of a binomial distribution sample) over 2 winters, 2012–13 and 2013–14, at 2 sites (diamonds and triangles) in Illinois, USA, on bats of 5 species (A, B); prevalence of P. destructans on substrate under bats of each species (C, D; dashed lines), and prevalence of P. destructans under, near (10–20 cm), and far from (>2 m) bats (E, F). No substrate samples far from bats were taken in the first winter. Lines join observ

Figure 1. Pseudogymnoascus destructans prevalence (±1 SE, calculated from the variance of a binomial distribution sample) over 2 winters, 2012–13 and 2013–14, at 2 sites (diamonds and triangles) in Illinois, USA, on bats of 5 species (A, B); prevalence of P. destructans on substrate under bats of each species (C, D), and prevalence of P. destructans under, near (10–20 cm), and far from (>2 m) bats (E, F). No substrate samples far from bats were taken in the first winter. Lines join observed mean prevalence for each species (solid circles) to facilitate presentation but do not indicate trajectories between time points. Prevalence of species or substrate means indicated by the same letter did not differ significantly (p>0.05) in a logistic regression analysis with either species and site as fixed effects at each sampling point (A, B) or substrate sample type at each sampling point (C–F); effect of site was not significant in any of these comparisons. E., Eptesicus; M., myotis; P., perimyotis.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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