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SCIENCEThursday 10 March 2016
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to upstate New York a de-
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nose fungus found lower
levels of infection in Asian
bats and said signs point to
a higher resistance to the
fungus among those Asian
TheMsuirapypaon2ss0ew1d8erstreoparbleifotseuntotfsfthttehheis bats.
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pkcwg“atonWoaorietetTlsiwbtoatubveiMnwDlkrplhhoeehnasevyweitielucueuencneniduaunecnstayxntttdnlfcedsitnraeymrdaohIetuorbncnFymreecoeiteoivlcsdargrilShieeimennlhghwst2oaeiwithyshnw.gdgno0inncnfrdao.bobg.tothl1ceotumioarohvaneeotpo8itrhOldttdOadgmev.rvreylisirtecno.ieepMpieeahnMpnblruiabagauneerrapeasstpbpyasyeabntttlpptcoroteraorrisisFrdhlumrnoasesrersaf,rretrbwetimaitewidoEcuabinudseddaelatinaeeernertagnnn,eaerhtr”cnoarltiniidihsitlsatthssnifaathibenfhikteseteiifeseg.lentuaubi.MdaanshsPasigndnninTldettjidgjeeraumnueohhcsso-tteiissrdsoedaonenhjsst-t-- In this Jan. 27, 2009 file photo, Scott Crocoll holds a dead Indiana bat in an abandoned mine in or not it’s their immune sys-
Rosendale, N.Y. tem, some kind of microbe
on their skin inhibiting their
Associated Press growth or what exactly is
causing it,” said researcher
food. Hibernation caves ened just last year. nation patterns of infected Kate Langwig, now a post-
were decimated, with die- The less grim reports about little brown bats in up- doctoral fellow at Harvard
off rates hitting 90 percent. little browns come even state New York found they University.
White nose eventually as other caves continue roused less frequently than The Santa Cruz research-
ers also are investigating
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