<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pierre Becker</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Claudia Van den Eynde</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">F. Baert</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Elizabet D'hooge</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Robby De Pauw</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Normand, Anne-Cécile</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Piarroux, Renaud</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dirk Stubbe</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Remarkable fungal biodiversity on northern Belgium bats and hibernacula</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mycologia</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mycobiome</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pseudogymnoascus cavicola</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pseudogymnoascus destructans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">white-nose syndrome</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2023</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Apr-07-2023</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">115</style></volume><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Bats can be affected by fungal pathogens such as Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent&lt;br&gt;
of the white-nose syndrome. Their body surface can also be colonized by fungal commensals or carry&lt;br&gt;
transient fungal species and participate in their dispersal. In this study, 114 bat specimens belonging&lt;br&gt;
to seven species were sampled from various locations in northern Belgium. Culture-based methods&lt;br&gt;
revealed an important mycological diversity, with a total of 209 different taxa out of the 418 isolates.&lt;br&gt;
Overall, a mean of 3.7 taxa per bat was recorded, but significant differences were observed between&lt;br&gt;
sampling sites and seasons. The mycobiomes were dominated by cosmopolitan and plant-associated&lt;br&gt;
species, in particular from the genera Cladosporium, Penicillium, and Aspergillus. Other species known&lt;br&gt;
to be related to bats or their environment, such as Apiotrichum otae, were also retrieved. Sampling of&lt;br&gt;
hibernacula indicated that diverse fungal species can inhabit these sites, including a yet undescribed&lt;br&gt;
Pseudogymnoascus species, distinct from Ps. destructans, namely, Ps. cavicola.&lt;/p&gt;
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