Global fungal threat: Six new species associated with bat evolution
Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 11:01
in Biology & Nature
A fungal infection associated with a high percentage of deaths among HIV and other immune-compromised patients is more diverse than previously known and likely spread around the world by bats. A global assessment of the fungus Histoplasma found that the pathogen is divided among six species, and its spread and speciation from continent-to-continent over the past 9 million years coincides with the global dispersal and evolution of bats.