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PYoungbaer wrote:The Oklahoma bat (a single Myotis velifer) tested positive for the fungus, Geomyces destructans. I've seen the detailed lab report from the USGS lab. That's not bad science.
Please don't take this the wrong way, Peter, and I'm no scientist.....butt... when you destroy the evedance.....what do you have to back up that fancy report? How do you defend your findings on something as critical as this. That's bad science in my book.PYoungbaer wrote:caverdan,
The Oklahoma bat (a single Myotis velifer) tested positive for the fungus, Geomyces destructans. I've seen the detailed lab report from the USGS lab. That's not bad science.
I think we can all agree on this point.PYoungbaer wrote:I think the real issues with the Oklahoma bat aren't the science, but rather the response by many western land managers - both state and federal - considered by many to be over-reaction.
wyandottecaver wrote:As far as the map, at best, the OK case should be presumptive rather than confirmed since it is IMPOSSIBLE to confirm the result.
Extremeophile wrote:wyandottecaver wrote:As far as the map, at best, the OK case should be presumptive rather than confirmed since it is IMPOSSIBLE to confirm the result.
I think there needs to be a new category of "doubtful".
Anne Ballman, of the USGS lab in Madison, Wisconsin, which did the analysis, provided more detail. Basically, while the bat showed fungal colonization on the skin of the bat, it showed no lesions (pathological invasion into the skin tissues). Further, it didn't show any of the tell-tale curved conidia. Ballman says that fungi can produce hyphae without conidia. Also, she said that there were other fungi on the bat, also not unusual, so that the colonization may not have been from the WNS fungus, or the conidia may have been inadvertently knocked off the bat during handling. So, no other clinical signs, but the Geomyces destructans fungus was confirmed by genetic sequencing, and the PCR was run with positive and negative controls.
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