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      Presence of white-nose syndrome in bats from Southern Mexico

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          White-nose syndrome (WNS), caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, is increasingly causing high mortality in North American vespertilionid bats. This fungus has become widely established, appearing in bat populations from Asia, Europe and North America, including in the state of Texas, U.S., creating a high potential for dispersal into neighboring Mexico. In this study, we collected samples from 11 captured individuals and 15 carcasses of Myotis velifer, Dermanura azteca, Pteronotus parnellii, Desmodus rotundus, Balantiopteryx plicata and Anoura geoffroyi species of bat that were living in a cave in southern Mexico. Using morphological and molecular techniques, we found P. destructans in vespertilionid and emballonurid bats, including 9 individuals of M. velifer (8) and P. parnellii (1), and in 1 carcass of B. plicata. Captured individuals and carcasses showed injuries mostly to their wings, patagium and rostrum. Thermotolerance experiments confirmed that P. destructans can grow at a wide range of temperatures (5–28 °C), making this fungus a risk to bat species in a wide range of habitats, including the tropical environments of southern Mexico. This study evidences the presence of P. destructans in southern Mexico, validating the need for a monitoring program and education to inform communities of the potential detrimental that P. destructans may have on other populations and species of bats in a Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot.

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                PLOS One
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                19 May 2025
                2025
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                : 5
                : e0318461
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Laboratorio de Vertebrados Terrestres (Mastozoología), Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regional (CIIDIR-Oaxaca), Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Calle Hornos, Col. Nochebuena, Santa Cruz Xoxocotlán, Oaxaca, México
                [2 ] Grupo DIMYGEN-CEGES, Diagnósticos Moleculares y Genéticos (DIMYGEN Laboratorio) y Centro para la Gestión de la Sustentabilidad (CEGES), Calle 78 num. 578 entre 13-1 y 128 Residencial Pensiones, Mérida, Yucatán, México
                [3 ] Laboratorio de Genética, Centro de Investigaciones Regionales “Dr. Hideyo Noguchi”, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán. Mérida, Yucatán, México
                [4 ] Pabellón Nacional de Biodiversidad, Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX, México
                [5 ] Laboratorio de Micología, Departamento El Hombre y Su Ambiente, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso, Villa Quietud, CDMX, Mexico
                [6 ] UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, UNAM, Batalla 5 de mayo s/n esquina Fuerte de Loreto, Col. Ejército de Oriente, Iztapalapa, CDMX, México
                National Veterinary Research Institute (NVRI), NIGERIA
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                10.1371/journal.pone.0318461
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                © 2025 Medina-Cruz et al

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                : 7 August 2024
                : 4 March 2025
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                Figures: 3, Tables: 1, Pages: 13
                Funding
                Funded by: funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100007161, Secretaría de Investigación y Posgrado, Instituto Politécnico Nacional;
                Award ID: SIP: 20231260
                Award Recipient :
                This work was supported by the Research and Postgraduate Secretariat of the National Polytechnic Institute (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, IPN; SIP: 20231260 granted to MB-S)
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