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Artificial supplementary food influences hedgehog occupancy and activity patterns more than predator presence or natural food availability

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Supplementary feeding for declining hedgehog Erinaceus europaeus populations is popular in Great Britain and has been suggested as an important factor in explaining higher densities in urban areas compared with rural ones. Occupancy modelling was used to test whether spatial variation in supplementary feeding, natural food, habitat, or predator ...
Eleanor S. Benjamin, Adam Bates, Robert Davis, Anthony Sévêque, Jonathan Wild, Ben Clutterbuck, Richard W. Yarnell   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Urban bats show dietary flexibility in aquatic arthropod consumption at urban and rural waterbodies

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban waterbodies are critical for biodiversity and provide feeding grounds for insectivorous bats. Yet, how urbanisation affects bats' food choices at urban waterbodies and the role of emergent aquatic arthropods remain poorly understood. We compared the diet of three urban bat species – Vespadelus vulturnus, Chalinolobus gouldii,and Myotis macropus –
Tanja M. Straka, Melissa E. Carew, Isabel Valenzuela, Stephen R. Griffiths, Pia E. Lentini, Linda F. Lumsden, Rahul Rane, Rodney Ree van der   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

New tick and insect cell line resources for vector-borne disease research from the Tick Cell Biobank

Revue d’Elevage et de Médecine Vétérinaire des Pays Tropicaux
Background: Arthropod cell lines play an important role in research on the control of vector-borne pathogens of veterinary, medical and agricultural importance.
Catherine Hartley, Jing Jing Khoo, Alistair Darby, Benjamin L. Makepeace, Lesley Bell-Sakyi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pickin' up good vibrations: a systematic review of footfall detection and analysis in the realm of wildlife surveying

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Exploration of new wildlife surveying methodologies that leverage advances in sensor technology and machine learning has led to tentative research into the application of seismology techniques. This, most commonly, involves the deployment of a footfall trap – a seismic sensor and data logger customised for wildlife footfall.
Benjamin J. Blackledge, Luigi La Spada, Robert A. Briers, Niamh M. McHugh, Patrick J. C. White   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing together: The elementome and biogeochemical niche of the mutualistic occupants of a fig microcosm

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract In brood‐site pollination mutualisms, where flowers provide nutrition and shelter to pollinator offspring in exchange for pollination, resource allocation to inflorescences is directly related to plant and pollinator fitness.
Manasa Kulkarni, Nehal Vijay Naik, Jyothilakshmi Vadassery, Renee M. Borges   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

SARS-CoV-2 Transmission by Arthropod Vectors: A Scoping Review. [PDF]

Biomed Res Int, 2022
Nekoei S, Khamesipour F, Benchimol M, Bueno-Marí R, Ommi D.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Francisella tularensis Transmission by Solid Organ Transplantation, 20171. [PDF]

, 2019
In July 2017, fever and sepsis developed in 3 recipients of solid organs (1 heart and 2 kidneys) from a common donor in the United States; 1 of the kidney recipients died.
Annambhotla, Pallavi, Asad, Shadaba, Aslam, Saima, Basavaraju, Sridhar V, Brown, Jennifer, Burns, Kevin, Carifo, Karen, Dagher, Hikmat N, Fritz, Curtis L, Gonzalez, Anthony, Ham, John, Helsel, Elizabeth, Hinckley, Alison F, Iser, Joseph, Johnson, Michael, Jones, Jefferson M, Kelley, Walter E, Kingry, Luke C, Krafft, Melissa, Kwit, Natalie A, Medina-Garcia, Luis H, Mohler, Kelli, Murua, Christian, Nelson, Christina A, Petersen, Jeannine M, Respicio-Kingry, Laurel, Tularemia in Transplant Recipients Investigation Team, Wiggins, Landon, Zhang, Ying   +28 more
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Improved Detection of Bartonella DNA in Mammalian Hosts and Arthropod Vectors by Real-Time PCR Using the NADH Dehydrogenase Gamma Subunit (nuoG)

Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2010
We used a whole-genome scanning technique to identify the NADH dehydrogenase gamma subunit (nuoG) primer set that is sensitive and specific enough to detect a diverse number of Bartonella species in a wide range of environmental samples yet maintains ...
J. Colborn, M. Kosoy, V. Motin, M. Telepnev, G. Valbuena, K. Myint, Y. Fofanov, C. Putonti, Chen Feng, L. Peruski   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Functional divergence drives the prevalence of low‐abundance species in bat assemblages

Functional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Ecological communities are structured by a few common species, while most occur at low abundance. Understanding the drivers of this widespread pattern raises fundamental questions about community assembly rules and is important for applied ecology for identifying ...
Andrés F. Ramírez‐Mejía, Francisco Sánchez, J. Nicolás Urbina‐Cardona, Natalia Ladino   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Alteration of mitochondrial function in arthropods during arboviruses infection: a review of the literature

Frontiers in Physiology
Arthropods serve as vectors for numerous arboviruses responsible for diseases worldwide. Despite their medical, veterinary, and economic significance, the interaction between arboviruses and arthropods remains poorly understood.
María E. Santana-Román, Santos Ramírez-Carreto, Paola Maycotte, Victoria Pando-Robles   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source