The fungus behind white-nose syndrome, a disease that has ravaged bat populations in North America, may have an Achilles’ heel: UV light. White-nose syndrome has spread steadily for the past decade and is caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans, known as P. destructans or Pd. In the course of genomic analyses of P. destructans, a … Continue reading White-nose syndrome: P. destructans fungus is highly sensitive to UV light