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Chiropterans play an important role in the maintenance of the environmental balance, since they are pollinators, seed dispersers and predators. They contribute to transmission and spreading of microorganisms such as helminths, fungi, protozoa, bacteria ...
Thaliane França Costa+8 more
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Artibeus cinereus (Gervais, 1856). Exped. Castelnau Zool., p. 36. TYPE LOCALITY: Brazil, Para, Belem. DISTRIBUTION: Veracruz (Mexico) to Guianas, N. E. Brazil, Bolivia, and Amazonian Peru; Trinidad; Tobago; Grenada. COMMENT: Includes quadrivittatus and rosenbergi; see Cabrera, 1958:87-88.
Honacki, James H.+2 more
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Artibeus (Artibeus) concolor Peters 1865
Published as part of Velazco, Paúl M., Voss, Robert S., Fleck, David W. & Simmons, Nancy B., 2021, Mammalian Diversity And Matses Ethnomammalogy In Amazonian Peru Part 4: Bats, pp. 1-201 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2021 (451) on page 90, DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090.451.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record ...
Velazco, Paúl M.+3 more
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Diverse hosts, diverse immune systems: Evolutionary variation in bat immunology
Bats are recognized to have distinct immune systems from other vertebrates that may allow them to host virulent pathogens without showing disease. However, these flying mammals are also incredibly diverse, such that bats should not be expected to be immunologically homogenous.
Daniel J. Becker+11 more
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A sequential naïve Bayes classifier for DNA barcodes [PDF]
DNA barcodes are short strands of 255–700 nucleotide bases taken from the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) region of the mitochondrial DNA. It has been proposed that these barcodes may be used as a method of differentiating between biological species.
Anderson, Michael P.+1 more
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195. Schwartz’s Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus schwartzi French: Artibée de Schwartz / German: Schwartz-Fruchtvampir / Spanish: Artibeo de Schwartz Taxonomy. Artibeus jamaicensis schwartz J. K. Jones, 1978, “ Mesopotamia, 350 fi. [= 107 m], Charlotte Parish, St. Vincent (Lesser Antilles).” Artibeus schwartzi is in subgenus Artibeus. It was long considered a
Don E. Wilson, Russell A. Mittermeier
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Mormoops megalophylla exhibits a seasonal monoestrous reproductive pattern. Spermatogenesis and folliculogenesis occurs from October to December, mating takes place in November–December, gestation lasts from December to May, and lactation extends from June to September.
Gihovani Ademir Samano‐Barbosa+8 more
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The aim of this study was to analyze the degree of fluctuating asymmetry in wing traits and digits of three bat species in extensive livestock systems of Córdoba Department, Colombia.
Dennis Castillo-Figueroa
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Highly Diverse Arenaviruses in Neotropical Bats, Brazil
We detected arenavirus RNA in 1.6% of 1,047 bats in Brazil that were sampled during 2007–2011. We identified Tacaribe virus in 2 Artibeus sp. bats and a new arenavirus species in Carollia perspicillata bats that we named Tietê mammarenavirus.
Luiz Gustavo Bentim Góes+14 more
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Molecular characterization of rabies virus isolated from Desmodus rotundus captured in Rio de Janeiro State [PDF]
Caracterizou-se filogeneticamente o vírus da raiva, isolado de morcegos hematógafos (Demodus rotundus). Cento e noventa e nove D. rotundus foram capturados em cinco abrigos, no Norte e Noroeste do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e sul do Espírito Santo.
BRANDÃO, P.E.+7 more
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