Culturable superficial psychrophilic fungi associated with bats in areas of Jalisco and San Luis Potosí, México

Authors

  • Judith Castellanos-Moguel Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco
  • Ángel Rodríguez-Moreno Laboratorio de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Departamento de Zoología Instituto de Biología, UNAM. Circuito Exterior, Edificio Nuevo, Módulo C Apdo. Postal 70-153, Coyoacán. México D.F. 04510 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1577-2471
  • Arturo García Ortiz Laboratorio de Micología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Col. Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, 04950 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4441-8375
  • Arturo Miranda Calixto Laboratorio de Micología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Col. Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, 04950 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4563-6956
  • Omar Reyes Hernández Laboratorio de Micología, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Xochimilco, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Col. Villa Quietud, Coyoacán, 04950 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1507-2301
  • Gabriel Gutiérrez-Granados UMIEZ, Facultad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza, UNAM. Batalla 5 de mayo s/n esquina Fuerte de Loreto, Col. Ejército de Oriente, Iztapalapa C.P. 09320, Ciudad de México https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9468-9333
  • Víctor Manuel Sánchez-Cordero Laboratorio de Sistemas de Información Geográfica, Departamento de Zoología Instituto de Biología, UNAM. Circuito Exterior, Edificio Nuevo, Módulo C Apdo. Postal 70-153, Coyoacán. México D.F. 04510 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1459-2046

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.2024.55.1381

Abstract

Background: White-nose syndrome caused by Pseudogymnoascus destructans has dramatically decreased bat populations in Canada and the United States of America; it has not been detected in México.

Objective: Characterize the mycobiota in bats that share distribution with organisms susceptible to being parasitized by P. destructans.

Methods: Bat sampling was carried out in San Luis Potosí and Jalisco. Samples were taken from snout and wings, and cultivated on Rose-Bengal chloramphenicol agar. Samples were purified on potato dextrose agar and identified at the genus level and, when possible, at the species level based on morphology and micromorphology. Bats were identified at the species level.

Results and conclusions: The results showed a high fungal diversity, where 32 fungi genera were identified. Acremonium, Aspergillus, Cladosporium, Penicillium, and Scopulariopsis were detected in the 17 bat species. Pseudogymnoascus pannorum was documented, but not P. destructans.

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2024-09-09

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Castellanos-Moguel, J., Rodríguez-Moreno, Ángel, García Ortiz, A., Miranda-Calixto, A., Reyes Hernández, O., Gutiérrez-Granados, G., & Sánchez-Cordero, V. M. (2024). Culturable superficial psychrophilic fungi associated with bats in areas of Jalisco and San Luis Potosí, México. Scientia Fungorum, 55, e1381. https://doi.org/10.33885/sf.2024.55.1381

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