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Predação oportunística de Molossus molossus (Pallas, 1766) (Chiroptera: Molossidae) por Rhinella jimi (Stevaux, 2002) (Anura: Bufonidae) na Caatinga, Pernambuco, Brasil

Biotemas, 2010
A presente comunicação relata um evento de predação oportunística do morcego Molossus molossus pelo sapo Rhinella jimi, ocorrido em 29 de maio de 2003 na Caatinga, município de Orocó, Estado de Pernambuco, nordeste do Brasil.
Luiz Augustinho Menezes da Silva, Ednilza Maranhão dos Santos, Fabiana Oliveira de Amorim   +2 more
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The chiggerflea Hectopsylla pulex (Siphonaptera: Tungidae) as an ectoparasite of free-tailed bats (Chiroptera: Molossidae)

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2009
In the present study, we investigated the prevalence and intensity of Hectopsylla pulex infection in Molossus rufus and Molossus molossus, the parasite's choice of attachment site, and whether this host-parasite system varies with host size.
Júlia Lins Luz, Luciana de Moraes Costa, Luiz Antonio Costa Gomes, Carlos Eduardo Lustosa Esbérard   +3 more
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Molecular data on the CO1 and beta fibrinogen gene in the evolutionary relationships of the mastiff bat (Chiroptera, Molossidae, Molossus)

Data in Brief, 2018
Molossus is one of the most diverse genera of free-tailed bats in the pantropical family Molossidae and occurs though all the Neotropics. Nevertheless, the taxonomy and phylogeny of this group is poorly understood.
Livia O. Loureiro, Burton K. Lim, Mark D. Engstrom   +2 more
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Do bats use guano and urine stains to find new roosts? Tests with three group-living bats

Royal Society Open Science, 2020
Many animals use social cues to find refuges. Bats can find roosts using the echolocation and social calls of conspecifics, but they might also use scent cues, a possibility which is less studied. The entrances of bat roosts are often marked by guano and
Bridget K. G. Brown, Lauren Leffer, Yesenia Valverde, Nia Toshkova, Jessica Nystrom, Rachel A. Page, Gerald G. Carter   +6 more
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Noteworthy records of bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) from southeastern Peru [PDF]

Check List, 2021
Based on recent bat surveys in the Department of Madre de Dios, Peru, we present distribution records for Thyroptera wynneae Velazco et al., 2014 and Molossops temminckii (Burmeister, 1854), which extend the known distributions and represent the ...
Farah Carrasco-Rueda, Diego J. Zavala, Yolanda Alcarraz, Luiggi Carrasco-Escudero, Hugo T. Zamora   +4 more
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Notas sobre alguns morcegos da ilha de Maracá, Território Federal de Roraima (Mammalia, Chiroptera) [PDF]

Acta Amazonica, 1980
Resumo Foram analisadas oito espécies de morcegos (Pteronotus parnellii rubiginosus, Carollia p. perspicillata, Uroderma b. bilobatum, Uroderma magnirostrum, Chiroderma v. villosum, Artibeus fuliginosus, Desmodus r. rotundus, Molossus m.
Valdir Antonio Taddei, Nélio Roberto dos Reis   +1 more
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First report of rabies infection in bats, Molossus molossus, Molossops neglectus and Myotis riparius in the city of São Paulo, State of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil

Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2011
INTRODUCTION: This paper presents the first report of rabies in three bat species, Molossus molossus, Molossops neglectus and Myotis riparius in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
Adriana Ruckert da Rosa, Ana Paula de Arruda Geraldes Kataoka, Silvana Regina Favoretto, Miriam Martos Sodré, José Trezza Netto, Angélica Cristine de Almeida Campos, Edison Luiz Durigon, Luzia Fátima Alves Martorelli   +7 more
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Bats of Vieques National Wildlife Refuge, Puerto Rico, Greater Antilles [PDF]

Check List, 2013
Herein, we present captures of bats from Vieques, a small subtropical island located southeast of Puerto Rico. We captured 82 individuals representing 4 species, including 59 Noctilio leporinus, 9 Artibeus jamaicensis, 9 Molossus molossus, and 5 ...
Isha Alexander, Keith Geluso
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Metagenomic of Liver Tissue Identified at Least Two Genera of Totivirus-like Viruses in Molossus molossus Bats

Microorganisms
The Totiviridae family of viruses has a unique genome consisting of double-stranded RNA with two open reading frames that encode the capsid protein (Cap) and the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRpol).
Roseane da Silva Couto, Endrya do Socorro Foro Ramos, Wandercleyson Uchôa Abreu, Luis Reginaldo Ribeiro Rodrigues, Luis Fernando Marinho, Vanessa dos Santos Morais, Fabiola Villanova, Ramendra Pati Pandey, Xutao Deng, Eric Delwart, Antonio Charlys da Costa, Elcio Leal   +11 more
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Novel Betaherpesviruses in Neotropical Bats on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts: First Report from Antillean Tree Bats (Ardops nichollsi) and Evidence for Cross-Species Transmission

Microorganisms
To date, limited information is available on herpesviruses in bats from the Caribbean region. We report here high detection rates (24.24%, n = 66) of herpesviruses in oral samples from apparently healthy bats (Ardops nichollsi (75%, 9/12) and Molossus ...
Jessica L. Kulberg, Sarah Hooper, Yashpal S. Malik, Souvik Ghosh   +3 more
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