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Andrea Gargas
Researcher at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Publications - 36
Citations - 4002
Andrea Gargas is an academic researcher from University of Wisconsin-Madison. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ribosomal DNA & Phylogenetic tree. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 36 publications receiving 3765 citations. Previous affiliations of Andrea Gargas include Smithsonian Institution & National Museum of Natural History.
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Bat White-Nose Syndrome: An Emerging Fungal Pathogen?
David S. Blehert,Alan C. Hicks,Melissa Behr,Carol U. Meteyer,Brenda M. Berlowski-Zier,Elizabeth L. Buckles,Jeremy T. H. Coleman,Scott R. Darling,Andrea Gargas,Robyn Niver,Joseph C. Okoniewski,Robert J. Rudd,Ward B. Stone +12 more
TL;DR: Direct microscopy and culture analyses demonstrated that the skin of WNS-affected bats is colonized by a psychro-philic fungus that is phylogenetically related to Geomyces spp.
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Geomyces destructans sp. nov. associated with bat white-nose syndrome.
TL;DR: Based on rRNA gene sequence (ITS and SSU) characters the fungus is placed in the genus Geomyces, yet its distinctive asymmetrically curved conidia are unlike those of any described Geomyce species.
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Multiple origins of lichen symbioses in fungi suggested by SSU rDNA phylogeny.
TL;DR: A highly resolved parsimony analysis of small subunit ribosomal DNA (SSU rDNA) sequences suggests at least five independent origins of the lichen habit in disparate groups of Ascomycete and Basidiomycetes.
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Histopathologic criteria to confirm white-nose syndrome in bats.
Carol U. Meteyer,Elizabeth L. Buckles,David S. Blehert,Alan C. Hicks,D. Earl Green,Valerie I. Shearn-Bochsler,Nancy J. Thomas,Andrea Gargas,Melissa Behr +8 more
TL;DR: White-nose syndrome is a cutaneous fungal disease of hibernating bats associated with a novel Geomyces sp.
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Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Primers for Amplifying and Sequencing Nuclear 18S rDNA from Lichenized Fungi
Andrea Gargas,John W. Taylor +1 more
TL;DR: To sequence the DNA of the fungal mycobiont from a lichen association the authors designed primers for the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) which amplify thefungal 18S rDNA but not the green algal 18G rDNA, which is the complicating sequence.