News Finding: The variation in infection intensity observed within some North American species, such as the little brown bat, may be a hopeful sign, he said.
Paper Finding: Infection prevalence in early autumn when bats returned to infected hibernacula to swarm was between 5% and 50% for the six species ( figure 2) .
News Context: Their results pointed toward host resistance and did not support the other hypotheses, Hoyt said. The variation in infection intensity observed within some North American species, such as the little brown bat, may be a hopeful sign, he said. Overall, little brown bats had much higher levels of infection than Asian bats, but some individual little brown bats had relatively low fungal loads.
Paper Context: Serial dilutions of the DNA from 10 ng to 1000 fg were prepared and analysed with IGS qPCR, resulting in a significant curve from 17.33 to 30.74 C t (ng of P. destructans ¼ 23.348*C t þ 22.049, r 2 ¼ 0.986). Infection prevalence in early autumn when bats returned to infected hibernacula to swarm was between 5% and 50% for the six species ( figure 2) . Surprisingly, prevalence decreased during the autumn for M. lucifugus at all three sites where this species was sampled multiple times, and more limited data for other species also suggested a decline in prevalence during this season (figure 2 and the electronic supplementary material, table S1), despite high contact rate during promiscuous mating.