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Male and female bats have similar number of bat flies, June 2019

, 2019
Bats are commonly affected by parasites known as bat flies in the families Nycteribiidae and Streblidae. It is important to understand bat flies and their effects on bat populations due to their ubiquity.
Kennedy, Brianna R.
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Extreme Silk Toughness in Caerostris Spiders Is Limited to Adult Females

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
We ask whether species with exceptionally tough silk, like Caerostris bark spiders, show different developmental patterns in silk toughness between ontogenetic stages and sexes. We found that only large females produce exceptionally tough silk with higher initial stiffness, while juvenile females as well as adult and juvenile males produce inferior ...
Matjaž Gregorič, Kuang‐Ping Yu, Jeremia Ravelojaona, Todd A. Blackledge, Matjaž Kuntner   +4 more
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Urbanization and Vector Species Shape Avian Malaria Prevalence in Mosquitoes

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Avian malaria prevalence was assessed in two mosquito species across urban and peri‐urban habitats. No infections were detected in either species in urban areas, while a 2.53% prevalence was found in the native Culex pipiens from peri‐urban sites, highlighting the influence of urbanization on parasite transmission dynamics.
Paula Parra, Jesús Veiga, Marta Garrigós, Guillermo Panisse, Mario Garrido, Josué Martínez‐de la Puente   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Female‐Biased Sexual Size Dimorphism and Its Potential Causes in Hairy‐Winged Bats

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Based on the integration of molecular genetics, traditional and geometric morphology, and acoustic characteristics of hairy‐winged bats (a species that was historically misclassified into two species due to extreme craniodental divergence between the sexes) in multiple regions of China, we quantified the sexual size dimorphism (SSD) between males and ...
Yang Yue, Zefeng Huang, Yang Guo, Yi Wu, Yaqing Liao, Yibo Hu, Xiaoyun Wang, Wenhua Yu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Volatile Compounds in Feathers of the Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) Reflect Sex and Pair‐Bond Status

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Scarlet macaws exhibit sex‐ and pair‐related differences in plumage volatile composition, with males showing greater chemical richness. Partnered individuals differ in specific compound classes, whereas no clear association with immune function was detected. These results support a potential role for olfactory cues in sexual and social communication in
Elisa Espartosa, Isabel Barja, José Martin, María del Carmen Hernández   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effect of Morphology and Spatial Distribution of Males on Vocal Identity in a Non‐Learning African Wood Dove

Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.
Emerald‐spotted Wood‐Dove songs show strong individual vocal signatures. Morphology explains little acoustic variation. Acoustic divergence increases with geographic distance between males, while local neighbor density does not influence vocal distinctiveness.
Lia Zampa, Paweł Szymański, Katarzyna Łosak, Tomasz Stanisław Osiejuk   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis and Tritrophic Associations of Bats, Bat Flies, and Laboulbeniales Microfungi in Kenya

Bats (Chiroptera) are host to diverse lineages of ectoparasitic arthropods including ticks, mites, fleas, bat bugs, and bat flies (Arthropoda). Streblidae and Nycteribiidae are families in the dipteran superfamily Hippoboscoidea, and these hematophagous ...
Willis, Ally
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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer, Abdulrahman Alsuhaibani, Charlène Bouchaud, Elora Chambraud, Vladimir Dabrowski, Hatem Djerbi, Fabien Lesguer, Hervé Monchot, Paul Picavet, Louise Purdue, Bertrand Riba, Shadi Shabo   +11 more
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The presence of wingless bat flies <i>(Eucampsipoda africana)</i> parasitizing Egyptian fruit bats (<i>Rousettus aegyptiacus</i>) in Kagera, Tanzania. [PDF]

Int J Parasitol Parasites Wildl
Mpete HE, Njau EP, Mtalika MI, Fidelis DB, Kerfua SD, Wambura P, Kifaro EG.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hidden Losses: Assessing the Risk of Coextinction Among Ectoparasitic Flies and Their Bat Host Species in Brazil

Animal Conservation, EarlyView.
The potential impact of bat species extinction on the number of their ectoparasitic fly species, based on interaction data for Brazil. As bat host species are removed over time, more connected species (green) would experience steeper declines and lead to greater ectoparasite losses when compared to a random extinction model (gray).
Nathan Lorenzo de Sena Gotti, Jonathan Ramos Ribeiro, Eder Barbier, Enrico Bernard   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source