White Nose Syndrome Research

Hamm P.S.*, Caimi N.A., Northup D.E., Valdez E.W., Buecher D.C., Dunlap C.A, Labeda D.P., Porras-Alfaro A. 2019. Streptomyces verpertilionus sp. nov., isolated from Townsend’s big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii). Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 112: 1297-1305.

Torres-Cruz T.J., Porras-Alfaro A., Caimi N.A., Nwabologu O., Strach E.W., Read K.J.H., Young J.M., Buecher D.C., Northup D.E. 2019. Microclimate conditions ideal to sustain Pseudogymnoascus growth in El Malpais National Monument caves in New Mexico, USA. Journal of Speleology 48: 191-202.

Lueschow S.R.*, Johnson L.JAN.*, Williams T.F.*, McCleery R., Porras-Alfaro A. 2019. Opportunistic Pseudogymnoascus and Geomyces species isolated from human and bats. Sydowia  71: 25-33. 

Winter A.S., Hathaway J.J.M., Kimble J.C., Buecher D.C., Valdez E.W., Porras-Alfaro A.,Young J.M., Read K.J.H., Northup D.E. 2017. Skin and fur bacterial diversity and community structure on American southwestern bats: effects of habitat, geography and bat traits. PeerJ 5: e3944.

*Hamm P.S., *Caimi N.A., Northup D.E., Valdez E.W., Buecher D.C., Dunlap C.A., Labeda D.P., Lueschow S., Porras-Alfaro A. 2017. Western Bats as a Reservoir of Novel Streptomyces Species with Antifungal Activity. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 83:E03057-16,  doi: 10.1128/AEM.03057-16 (Journal Cover)

*Johnson L., Miller A.N., McCleery R.A., McClanahan R., Kath J.A., Lueschow S., Porras-Alfaro A. 2013. Psychrophilic and Psychrotolerant Fungi on Bats and the Presence of Geomyces spp. on Bat Wings Prior to the Arrival of White Nose Syndrome. Applied Environmental Microbiology 79: 5465-5471.