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Regulatory T cell-like response to SARS-CoV-2 in Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) transduced with human ACE2

bioRxiv, 2023
Insectivorous Old World horseshoe bats (Rhinolophus spp.) are the likely source of the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 prior to its spillover into humans and causing the COVID-19 pandemic.
B. Burke, Savannah M Rocha, Shijun Zhan, Miles Eckley, Clara Reasoner, A. Addetia, Juliette Lewis, Anna Claire Fagre, Phillida A. Charley, J. Richt, S. Weiss, R. Tjalkens, D. Veesler, T. Aboellail, T. Schountz   +14 more
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Sex differences and individual variability in the captive Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) intestinal microbiome and metabolome [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The intestinal microbiome plays an important role in mammalian health, disease, and immune function. In light of this function, recent studies have aimed to characterize the microbiomes of various bat species, which are noteworthy for their roles as ...
J. Riopelle, Amirhossein Shamsaddini, M. Holbrook, Eric Bohrnsen, Yue Zhang, J. Lovaglio, Kathleen Cordova, P. Hanley, Lon V Kendall, C. Bosio, T. Schountz, Benjamin Schwarz, V. J. Munster, J. Port   +13 more
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Morphological and molecular evidence of the occurrence of Artibeus amplus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Brazil

Zoologia (Curitiba), 2023
. Artibeus amplus Handley, 1987 is a little-known bat species endemic to northern South America. There are confirmed records of the species for Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname. In this study, we report the occurrence of A.
M. Zórtea, M. C. S. Ribeiro, P. S. Mata, C. Bonvicino   +3 more
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The effect of group size on sleep in a neotropical bat, Artibeus jamaicensis [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A Ecological and Integrative Physiology
Sleep is associated with many costs, but is also important to survival, with a lack of sleep impairing cognitive function and increasing mortality. Sleeping in groups could alleviate sleep‐associated costs, or could introduce new costs if social sleeping
A. Heckley, Christian D. Harding, Rachel A. Page, B. Klein, Y. Yovel, C. Diebold, H. B. Tilley   +6 more
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Host morphophysiological conditions and environment abiotic factors correlate with bat flies (Streblidae) prevalence and intensity in Artibeus Leach, 1821 (Phyllostomidae) [PDF]

Ciência Rural, 2016
: The aim of this study was to correlate Streblidae parasitism rates with temperature and humidity as well as sex, age and reproductive condition of Artibeus bats.
Priscilla Maria Peixoto Patrício, Elizabete Captivo Lourenço, Aline Quintanilha de Freitas, Kátia Maria Famadas   +3 more
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Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) insusceptibility to mucosal inoculation with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is not caused by receptor compatibility [PDF]

npj Viruses
The ancestral sarbecovirus giving rise to SARS-CoV-2 is posited to have originated in bats. While SARS-CoV-2 causes asymptomatic to severe respiratory disease in humans, little is known about the biology, virus tropism, and immunity of SARS-CoV-2-like ...
J. Port, J. Riopelle, Sarah van Tol, Arthur Wickenhagen, Eric Bohrnsen, Daniel E. Sturdevant, Rebecca Rosenke, J. Lovaglio, Justin Lack, S. Anzick, Kathleen Cordova, K. C. Yinda, P. Hanley, T. Schountz, Lon V Kendall, Carl I. Shaia, G. Saturday, Craig Martens, Benjamin Schwarz, V. J. Munster   +19 more
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Litomosoides sp. (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae) Infection in Frugivorous Bats (Artibeus spp.): Pathological Features, Molecular Evidence, and Prevalence

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2019
Bats can host pathogenic organisms such as viruses and fungi, but little is known about the pathogenicity of their parasites. Hemoparasites are frequently recorded in Neotropical bats, particularly Litomosoides (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae), but their ...
Emilio Rendón-Franco, Osvaldo López-Díaz, Fernando Martínez-Hernández, Guiehdani Villalobos, Claudia Irais Muñoz-García, Nidia Aréchiga-Ceballos, Jorge Alberto Alfonso-Toledo, María Martha García Flores, Alvaro Aguilar Setién   +8 more
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Morphophysiology and Hormonal Control of the Mammary Gland of the Bat Artibeus lituratus During Gestation and Lactation: Emphasis on Estradiol and Progesterone. [PDF]

J Morphol
The mammary gland of NON females of Artibeus lituratus was composed of few ducts interspersed within a rich stroma, and covered by adipose tissue. The branching of the mammary gland in AP females are triggered by stimuli from an increase in serum estradiol that, through ERα activation, stimulates the proliferation of the ducts, and an increase in serum
Santiago CS, Pimentel PB, Soares EM, Ferraz JF, Guerra LHA, Souza CC, Góes RM, Morielle-Versute E, Taboga SR, Beguelini MR.   +9 more
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Antigenic and molecular evidence of Brucella sp.-associated epididymo-orchitis in frugivorous (Artibeus lituratus) and nectarivorous (Glossophaga soricina) bats in Brazil. [PDF]

Front Vet Sci, 2023
This study included 47 free-ranging bats from the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Six bats (12.8%) had genital inflammatory lesions, and two of them (one Artibeus lituratus and one Glossophaga soricina, a frugivorous and a nectarivorous, respectively ...
Silva LA, Souza MFS, Torquetti CG, Freitas DCO, Moreira LGA, Carvalho TP, Santana CH, Thompson JR, Rosa DCO, Jesus TR, Paixão TA, Santos RL.   +11 more
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Leptospira in Brazilian Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera): A Systematic Review. [PDF]

Vet Med Sci
We performed a systematic review on bats and Leptospira in Brazil. 8 studies were conducted between 1976 and 2024, with 66 bat taxa found positive, 1 Leptospira species and four serovars identified. Graphical abstract made with Biorender. ABSTRACT Bats are a megadiverse clade with plural ecological functions, including their role as bacterial, viral ...
Braga CDS, Zeppelini CG.
europepmc   +2 more sources