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Sugars are complementary resources to ethanol in foods consumed by Egyptian fruit bats [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2008
SUMMARYFood resources are complementary for a forager if their contribution to fitness is higher when consumed together than when consumed independently,e.g. ingesting one may reduce the toxic effects of another. The concentration of potentially toxic ethanol, [EtOH], in fleshy fruit increases during ripening and affects food choices by Egyptian fruit ...
Francisco, Sánchez, Burt P, Kotler, Carmi, Korine, Berry, Pinshow   +3 more
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Israeli Rousettus aegyptiacus Pox Virus (IsrRAPXV) Infection in Juvenile Egyptian Fruit Bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus): Clinical Findings and Molecular Detection

Viruses, 2021
During 2019, five carcasses of juvenile Egyptian fruit bats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) were submitted to the Kimron Veterinary Institute. These bats exhibited typical poxvirus like lesion plaques of different sizes on the skin, abdomen and the ventral side ...
Dan David, Irit Davidson, Sharon Karniely, Nir Edery, Ariela Rosenzweig, Asaf Sol   +5 more
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Regulatory T cell-like response to SARS-CoV-2 in Jamaican fruit bats (Artibeus jamaicensis) transduced with human ACE2.

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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Tongue-driven sonar beam steering by a lingual-echolocating fruit bat. [PDF]

PLoS Biology, 2017
Animals enhance sensory acquisition from a specific direction by movements of head, ears, or eyes. As active sensing animals, echolocating bats also aim their directional sonar beam to selectively "illuminate" a confined volume of space, facilitating ...
Wu-Jung Lee, Benjamin Falk, Chen Chiu, Anand Krishnan, Jessica H Arbour, Cynthia F Moss   +5 more
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Risk-taking Urban bats vs. hesitant rural bats: urbanization drives behavioral flexibility and brain plasticity in Egyptian fruit bats

, 2021
Urbanization is arguably the most dramatic phenomenon influencing animals around the world. Although many behavioral adjustments have been described in urban animal populations, we know very little about the possible impacts of urbanization on animals ...
Dashevsky, O
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Surveillance, Isolation, and Genetic Characterization of Bat Herpesviruses in Zambia

Viruses, 2023
Bats are of significant interest as reservoirs for various zoonotic viruses with high diversity. During the past two decades, many herpesviruses have been identified in various bats worldwide by genetic approaches, whereas there have been few reports on ...
Hayato Harima, Yongjin Qiu, Junya Yamagishi, Masahiro Kajihara, Katendi Changula, Kosuke Okuya, Mao Isono, Tomoyuki Yamaguchi, Hirohito Ogawa, Naganori Nao, Michihito Sasaki, Edgar Simulundu, Aaron S. Mweene, Hirofumi Sawa, Kanako Ishihara, Bernard M. Hang’ombe, Ayato Takada   +16 more
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Absorption of sugars in the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus): a paradox explained [PDF]

Journal of Experimental Biology, 2007
SUMMARYTwo decades ago D. J. Keegan reported results on Egyptian fruit bats(Rousettus aegyptiacus, Megachiroptera) that were strangely at odds with the prevailing understanding of how glucose is absorbed in the mammalian intestine. Keegan's in vitro tests for glucose transport against a concentration gradient and with phloridzin inhibition in fruit bat
Tracy, C.R., McWhorter, T.J., Korine, C., Wojciechowski, M.S., Pinshow, B., Karasov, W.H.   +5 more
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A viral metagenomic survey identifies known and novel mammalian viruses in bats from Saudi Arabia.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Bats are implicated as natural reservoirs for a wide range of zoonotic viruses including SARS and MERS coronaviruses, Ebola, Marburg, Nipah, Hendra, Rabies and other lyssaviruses.
Nischay Mishra, Shamsudeen F Fagbo, Abdulaziz N Alagaili, Adam Nitido, Simon H Williams, James Ng, Bohyun Lee, Abdulkareem Durosinlorun, Joel A Garcia, Komal Jain, Vishal Kapoor, Jonathan H Epstein, Thomas Briese, Ziad A Memish, Kevin J Olival, W Ian Lipkin   +15 more
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Structural and functional adaptation of the lingual papillae of the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus): specific adaptive feeding strategies

Folia Morphologica, 2022
BACKGROUND: The current investigation was aimed to clarify the correlations between the feeding strategy and lingual structure of the Egyptian fruit bat captured from the Egyptian east desert.
R. M. Kandyel, M. M.A. Abumandour, S. F. Mahmoud, M. Shukry, N. Madkour, A. El-Mansi, F. A. Farrag   +6 more
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Optimizing sampling design to deal with mist-net avoidance in Amazonian birds and bats [PDF]

, 2013
Mist netting is a widely used technique to sample bird and bat assemblages. However, captures often decline with time because animals learn and avoid the locations of nets. This avoidance or net shyness can substantially decrease sampling efficiency.
Marques, Joao Tiago, Beja, Pedro, Jorge M Palmeirim, Palmeirim, Jorge M., Marques, T., Ramos Pereira, Maria J., Joana Santana, Tiago A Marques, Marques, Tiago A., Santos, Carlos David, Santos, C., Pedro Beja, Carlos David Santos, João Tiago Marques, Beja, P., Palmeirim, J., Santana, Joana, Ramos Pereira, M., Santana, J., Maria J Ramos Pereira, Marques, J., Ramos Pereira Maria J., Marques João Tiago, Palmeirim Jorge M., Santos Carlos David, Marques Tiago A., Santana Joana, Beja Pedro, Marques, Tiago A.; id_orcid   +28 more
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