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Retinofugal Projections Into Visual Brain Structures in the Bat Artibeus planirostris: A CTb Study
A well-developed visual system can provide significant sensory information to guide motor behavior, especially in fruit-eating bats, which usually use echolocation to navigate at high speed through cluttered environments during foraging.
Melquisedec A. D. Santana+10 more
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Peramorphosis, an evolutionary developmental mechanism in neotropical bat skull diversity [PDF]
Background The neotropical leaf‐nosed bats (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) are an ecologically diverse group of mammals with distinctive morphological adaptations associated with specialized modes of feeding. The dramatic skull shape changes between related
Arthur W+15 more
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Se citan por primera vez en el AICOM (Área de Importancia para la Conservación de los Murciélagos) Osununú/Teyú Cuaré, San Ignacio (Misiones), insectos ectoparásitos (Diptera: Streblidae) recolectados sobre murciélagos de las familias Phyllostomidae y ...
Analía G. AUTINO+3 more
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O hábito alimentar dos morcegos (Mammalia, Chiroptera) e sua relação com a diversidade viral [PDF]
Dissertação (mestrado)—Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Zoologia, 2016.Os morcegos são reconhecidos como hospedeiros de uma grande variedade de vírus.
Teixeira, Paula Galvão
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Artibeus glaucus(Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) [PDF]
(Uploaded by Plazi for the Bat Literature Project) The silvery fruit-eating bat (Artibeus glaucus Thomas, 1893) is a small sized phyllostomid bat with indistinct facial stripes and obscure pale edging on the ears, dark brown pelage with less contrast on the shoulders and venter, and dorsal fur that extends beyond the posterior margin of the uropatagium.
Joaquín Arroyo-Cabrales+5 more
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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
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Microbiota composition of the dorsal patch of reproductive male Leptonycteris yerbabuenae. [PDF]
Bacteria and other types of microbes interact with their hosts in several ways, including metabolic pathways, development, and complex behavioral processes such as mate recognition.
Cerqueda-García, Daniel+5 more
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Redescription of Mimon koepckeae (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) [PDF]
Mimon koepckeae Gardner & Patton, 1972 is a poorly-known bat species, with only three known specimens, including the holotype. Its distribution is restricted to the type locality in Ayacucho Department, Peru, and surroundings. This species has been synonymized with M. crenulatum by some authors. Based on a new specimen of M.
Edith Arias+3 more
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Two new species of yellow-shouldered bats Sturnira Gray, 1842 (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae) from Central America and western South America are described using molecular and morphological data.
Paul Velazco, Bruce Patterson
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List of bats register at high altitudes in Río Abiseo National Park
We present a list of bats collected above 2000 meters in Río Abiseo National Park. Sixteen bat species belonging to the Phyllostomidae and Vespertilionidae families were collected during four expeditions between 1987 and 1990.
Mónica Romo, Mariella Leo
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