Hooper, S. E., Weller, H., & Amelon, S. K. (2020). COUNTCOLORS, AN R PACKAGE FOR QUANTIFICATION OF THE FLUORESCENCE EMITTED BY PSEUDOGYMNOASCUS DESTRUCTANS LESIONS ON THE WING MEMBRANES OF HIBERNATING BATS. Journal of Wildlife Diseases.

Study Highlights:

The purpose of this study was to create and validate the R package, countcolors, for quantifying the distinct orange–yellow UV fluorescence in bat-wing membrane lesions caused by P. destructans (white-nose syndrome).

It was found that using the R package countcolors takes less time than manually measurement using image analysis software, and countcolors can improve the accuracy when quantifying the area of P. destructans infection in bat wing-membranes.