Figure 6. Relative enzyme activity of enzymes that may have pathogenic and saprotrophic function in environmental Pseudogymnoascus spp. and P. destructans.

A) 10x replicates testing lipase and urease activity at hibernaculum and ambient temperature. B) 3x replicates testing lipase and urease activity at ambient temperature. C) 10x replicates testing α-hemolysis activity on on tryptic soy agar/5% sheep’s blood after 8 weeks (environmental isolates) and 11 weeks (P. destructans). Boxplot boundaries show the first and third quartiles, with the mean as the centerline and whiskers as 1.5 times the inter-quartile distance. Outliers are plotted as points.