The effect of group size on sleep in a neotropical bat, Artibeus jamaicensis. [PDF]
J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr PhysiolAbstractSleep 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 disrupts sleep. Working with the Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis), we aimed to: (1)
Heckley AM +6 more
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Transcriptome sequencing and annotation for the Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is one of the most common bats in the tropical Americas. It is thought to be a potential reservoir host of Tacaribe virus, an arenavirus closely related to the South American hemorrhagic fever viruses.
Timothy I Shaw +7 more
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Regulatory T cell-like response to SARS-CoV-2 in Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) transduced with human ACE2. [PDF]
PLoS Pathogens, 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.
Bradly Burke +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 ReportsThe 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 ...
Jade C. Riopelle +13 more
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Replication and shedding of MERS-CoV in Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis). [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2016 Abstract The emergence of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) highlights the zoonotic potential of Betacoronaviruses . Investigations into the origin of MERS-CoV have focused on two potential reservoirs: bats and camels.
Munster VJ +12 more
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Dynamic Duos? Jamaican Fruit Bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) Do Not Show Prosocial Behavior in a Release Paradigm [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2016 Once thought to be uniquely human, prosocial behavior has been observed in a number of species, including vampire bats that engage in costly food-sharing.
Eric Hoffmaster, Jennifer Vonk
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Osmotic tolerance and cryopreservation of Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) sperm
Theriogenology WildAssisted reproductive technologies will become increasingly important to preserve bat genetics to prevent the extinction of bat species and provide biomedical models for viral and disease research.
Elisha Xiao-Kim +3 more
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Mammalian Species, 2001 (Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) No abstract provided.
Jorge Ortega, Iván Castro-Arellano
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Mammalogy Notes, 2022 Registramos a Artibeus jamaicensis usando un nido de termitas como refugio diurno entre el 24 de abril y el 17 de agosto de 2021 en un huerto a 5 km de la ciudad de Heroica Cárdenas, Tabasco.
Saúl Sánchez-Soto +2 more
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Immunoglobulin germline reference sequences enable investigations and reveal insights into bat-specific immunity [PDF]
iScienceSummary: We generated a highly contiguous, annotated genome of the Jamaican fruit bat, Artibeus jamaicensis, including annotated germline immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IGH) and light-chain lambda (IGL) loci to understand bat B cell receptor repertoires ...
Ashley B. Reers +7 more
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