@article {Trivedi121038, author = {Jigar Trivedi and Karen Vanderwolf and Vikram Misra and Craig K. R. Willis and John Ratcliffe and James B. Anderson and Linda M. Kohn}, title = {Fungus causing White-Nose Syndrome in bats accumulates genetic variability in North America and shows no sign of recombination}, elocation-id = {121038}, year = {2017}, doi = {10.1101/121038}, publisher = {Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory}, abstract = {Emerging fungal diseases of wildlife are on the rise worldwide (3) and the best lens on the evolution of the fungal pathogens is population genomics. Our genome-wide analysis shows that the newly introduced North American population of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causal agent of White-Nose Syndrome (WNS) in bats, has expanded in size, has begun to accumulate variation through mutation, and presents no evidence as yet for genetic exchange and recombination among individuals.}, URL = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/03/121038}, eprint = {https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/04/03/121038.full.pdf}, journal = {bioRxiv} }