Table 1.

Examples of intraspecies variation in susceptibility to fungi

Fungal diseasePrimary fungal pathogenSelective species affectedCommentsReferences
Chalkbrood Ascosphaera apis Honeybee Intracolonial/patrilineal variation in chalkbrood resistance Invernizzi et al. (2009), Vojvodic et al. (2011), Gerdts et al. (2021)  
Chytridiomycosis Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Various amphibian species For example, in frogs, the wood frog is susceptible, and the American bullfrog is resistant Eskew et al. (2018), Smith et al. (2022)  
 Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Various salamandrine species Lungless salamanders and newts may be particularly vulnerable Gray et al. (2023), World Organization for Animal Health (2024), Seyedmousavi et al. (2018)  
Platypus mucormycosis Mucor amphibiorum Tasmanian platypus Not a typical disease in mainland platypus Connolly et al. (1998), Webb et al. (2012), Stewart and Munday (2005)  
White-nose syndrome Pseudogymnoascus destructans Nearctic (North American) bats Palearctic (Eurasian) bats tolerate disease, without population declines.
Asian bats may have higher resistance than those of North America
Little brown bats show variation in resistance 
Hoyt et al. (2016), Langwig et al. (2017), Zukal et al. (2016)  
Fungal diseasePrimary fungal pathogenSelective species affectedCommentsReferences
Chalkbrood Ascosphaera apis Honeybee Intracolonial/patrilineal variation in chalkbrood resistance Invernizzi et al. (2009), Vojvodic et al. (2011), Gerdts et al. (2021)  
Chytridiomycosis Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Various amphibian species For example, in frogs, the wood frog is susceptible, and the American bullfrog is resistant Eskew et al. (2018), Smith et al. (2022)  
 Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans Various salamandrine species Lungless salamanders and newts may be particularly vulnerable Gray et al. (2023), World Organization for Animal Health (2024), Seyedmousavi et al. (2018)  
Platypus mucormycosis Mucor amphibiorum Tasmanian platypus Not a typical disease in mainland platypus Connolly et al. (1998), Webb et al. (2012), Stewart and Munday (2005)  
White-nose syndrome Pseudogymnoascus destructans Nearctic (North American) bats Palearctic (Eurasian) bats tolerate disease, without population declines.
Asian bats may have higher resistance than those of North America
Little brown bats show variation in resistance 
Hoyt et al. (2016), Langwig et al. (2017), Zukal et al. (2016)  

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