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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, Anuj Srivastava, Wen-Chi Chou, Liang Liu, Ann Hawkinson, Travis C Glenn, Rick Adams, Tony Schountz   +7 more
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The effect of group size on sleep in a neotropical bat, Artibeus jamaicensis. [PDF]

J Exp Zool A Ecol Integr Physiol
Research Highlights We combine behavioral and physiological data to show that Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) sleeping in groups may sleep longer than individuals sleeping alone, and that behavior can be used to measure some sleep metrics in wild bats.
Heckley AM, Harding CD, Page RA, Klein BA, Yovel Y, Diebold CA, Tilley HB.   +6 more
europepmc   +4 more sources

Immunoglobulin germline reference sequences enable investigations and reveal insights into bat-specific immunity [PDF]

iScience
Summary: 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, Shijun Zhan, Taylor Pursell, Clara Reasoner, Natasha Hodges, Tanya M. Lama, Tony Schountz, Hannah K. Frank   +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, Savannah M Rocha, Shijun Zhan, Miles Eckley, Clara Reasoner, Amin Addetia, Juliette Lewis, Anna Fagre, Phillida A Charley, Juergen A Richt, Susan R Weiss, Ronald B Tjalkens, David Veesler, Tawfik Aboellail, Tony Schountz   +14 more
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Warning Before a Fight: The Role of Distance and Ritualized Agonistic Behaviors in Minimizing Aggression in the Jamaican Fruit Bat [PDF]

Biology
In many vertebrates, ritualized behaviors serve to settle conflicts while minimizing the risk of injury. The Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) is a polygynous species that roosts in caves, where dominant males form and defend harems by displaying
Orlando R. Vivanco-Montané, Jorge E. Morales-Mávil, Laura T. Hernández-Salazar, Jairo Pérez-Torres, Edgar Ahmed Bello-Sánchez   +4 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 ...
Jade C. Riopelle, Amirhossein Shamsaddini, Myndi G. Holbrook, Eric Bohrnsen, Yue Zhang, Jamie Lovaglio, Kathleen Cordova, Patrick Hanley, Lon V. Kendall, Catharine M. Bosio, Tony Schountz, Benjamin Schwarz, Vincent J. Munster, Julia R. Port   +13 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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A general framework for modeling pathogen transmission in co-roosting host communities. [PDF]

Ecology
Abstract Cross‐species transmission of pathogens can be facilitated by frequent contact among wildlife. Cross‐species transmission is often driven by phylogenetic similarity between host species, but the role this plays when multiple host species co‐roost is unknown.
Simonis MC, Becker DJ.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Comparative susceptibility of Old World and New World bat cell lines to Zika virus: Insights into viral replication and inflammatory responses. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
BackgroundThe emergence of flaviviruses and other arboviruses in novel geographic locations, arthropod vectors, and vertebrate amplification hosts complicates control and eradication efforts.
Alexander J Brown, Anna C Fagre, Julianna Gilson, Jennifer Horton, J Nick Allen, Ricardo Rivero, Mahsan Karimi, Emily Speranza, Michael Letko, Stephanie N Seifert   +9 more
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Differential performance of aqueous- and ethylic-Lugol's iodine stain to visualize anatomy in μCT-scanned vertebrates. [PDF]

J Anat
We compared the performance of two common diceCT scan stains, ethylic‐Lugol's iodine solution with aqueous‐Lugol's, across several vertebrate orders to assess differential imaging outcomes. We found that ethylic‐Lugol's is better for visualizing muscle attachment to bone but provides overall lower contrast between soft tissue types.
Crowell HL, Nagesan RS, Davis Rabosky AR, Kolmann MA.   +3 more
europepmc   +2 more sources