Tritrophic Associations of Bats, Bat Flies, and Fungi
Journal of Fungi Article On the Fly: Tritrophic Associations of Bats, Bat Flies, and Fungi Michiel D. de Groot 1,* , Iris Dumolein 2 , Thomas Hiller 3,4,5 , Attila D. Sándor 6,7 , Tamara Szentiványi 8 , Menno Schilthuizen 1 , M. Catherine Aime 9 , Annemieke Verbeken 2 and Danny Haelewaters 2,5,9 1 Research Group Evolutionary Ecology, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333CR Leiden, The Netherlands; menno.schilthuizen@naturalis.nl 2 Research Group Mycology, Department of Biology, Ghent University, K.L. Ledeganckstraat 35, 9000 Ghent, Belgium; iris.dumolein@ugent.be (I.D.); mieke.verbeken@ugent.be (A.V.); danny.haelewaters@gmail.com (D.H.) 3 Ecology of Tropical Agricultural Systems, University of Hohenheim, Garbenstrasse 13, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany; thomas.hiller@uni-hohenheim.de 4 Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 11, 89081 Ulm, Germany 5 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, Panama 6 Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Calea Mănăs, tur 3-5, 400372 Cluj-Napoca, Romania; adsandor@gmail.com 7 Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, István u. 2, 1078 Budapest, Hungary 8 Pathogen and Microbiome Institute, Northern Arizona University, 1395 S. Knoles Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86011, USA; tamaraszentivanyi@gmail.com 9 Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, 915 W. State Street, West Lafayette, IN 47906, USA; maime@purdue.edu * Correspondence: michielddegroot@gmail.com Academic Editor: Gudrun Wibbelt Received: 23 November 2020; Accepted: 11 December 2020; Published: 12 December 2020 Abstract: Parasitism is one of the most diverse and abundant modes of life, and of great ecological and evolutionary importance.
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