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Vector-Borne Bacteria Detected in Ticks, Mites and Flies Parasitizing Bats in the State of Rondônia, Brazilian Amazon [PDF]

open access: yesPathogens
Bats (Chiroptera) are among the most diverse and geographically dispersed mammals. They are of great importance to the ecosystem, as pollinators, seed dispersers and pest controllers, in addition to being hosts to several parasitic arthropods, including ...
Leormando Fortunato Dornelas Júnior   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Orexinergic neurons in the hypothalami of an Asiatic lion, an African lion, and a Southeast African cheetah

open access: yesJournal of Comparative Neurology, Volume 531, Issue 3, Page 366-389, February 2023., 2023
Photomicrograph of orexinergic neurons forming the main orexinergic neuronal cluster in the hypothalamus of a Southeast African cheetah. While showing the standard features of the orexinergic system, the Southeast African cheetah, along with an Asiatic and an African lion, also exhibits specializations in the organization of this system.
Demi Oddes   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bat responses to climate change: a systematic review

open access: yesBiological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 1, Page 19-33, February 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Understanding how species respond to climate change is key to informing vulnerability assessments and designing effective conservation strategies, yet research efforts on wildlife responses to climate change fail to deliver a representative overview due to inherent biases.
Francesca Festa   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Chromosomal Evolution in Chiroptera [PDF]

open access: yesGenes, 2017
Chiroptera is the second largest order among mammals, with over 1300 species in 21 extant families. The group is extremely diverse in several aspects of its natural history, including dietary strategies, ecology, behavior and morphology. Bat genomes show ample chromosome diversity (from 2n = 14 to 62).
Marianne Volleth   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Nipah: The Jumping Virus [PDF]

open access: yesNational Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2020
Nipah virus (NiV), infection is an emerging zoonosis with a high mortality rate, and severe neurological and respiratory involvement in humans. NiV, a Paramyxovirus belonging to the genus Henipavirus is highly pathogenic and has a mortality rate which ...
Anuradha Sharma, Anupriya Wadhwa
doaj   +1 more source

Predação oportunista de Artibeus planirostris (Spix, 1823) e Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) por marsupiais e anuro na APA do Rio Curiaú, Amapá, Brasil Opportunistic predation of Artibeus planirostris (Spix, 1823) and Carollia perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) by marsupials and anuran in the APA do Rio Curiaú, Amapá State, Brazil

open access: yesActa Amazonica, 2011
Durante estudos com morcegos em floresta de várzea na APA do Rio Curiaú, Amapá, Brasil, observamos três casos de predações oportunistas de morcegos frugívoros capturados em redes de neblina. Duas destas predações ocorreram por marsupiais e uma por anuro.
Isai Jorge de Castro   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quantitative evaluation of individual food intake by insectivorous vespertilionid bats (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae)

open access: yesBiology Open, 2021
Insectivorous bats provide important ecosystem services, especially by suppressing and controlling the insects’ biomass. To empirically quantify the number of insects consumed by European vespertilionid bats per night, we estimated their ratio of dry ...
Marharyta Moiseienko, Anton Vlaschenko
doaj   +1 more source

Diversity in the organization of elastin bundles and intramembranous muscles in bat wings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Unlike birds and insects, bats fly with wings composed of thin skin that envelops the bones of the forelimb and spans the area between the limbs, digits, and sometimes the tail.
Fenton MB   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Colección de Mamíferos, Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de Caldas (MHN-UCa)

open access: yesMammalogy Notes, 2020
La Colección de Mamíferos del Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de Caldas (MHN-UCa) alberga 3287 especímenes de mamíferos pertenecientes a 12 órdenes, 41 familias (38 nativas y 3 exóticas), 134 géneros (128 nativos y 6 exóticos) y 228 especies (
Héctor Ramírez-Chaves
doaj   +1 more source

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