Long-term cooperative relationships among vampire bats are not strongly predicted by their initial interactions. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciIn many group‐living animals, survival and reproductive success depend on the formation of long‐term social bonds, yet it remains largely unclear why particular pairs of groupmates form social bonds and not others.
Carter GG +6 more
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A recombinant rabies vaccine that prevents viral shedding in rabid common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus). [PDF]
PLoS Negl Trop Dis, 2022 Vampire bat transmitted rabies (VBR) is a continuing burden to public health and agricultural sectors in Latin America, despite decades-long efforts to control the disease by culling bat populations. Culling has been shown to disperse bats, leading to an
Cárdenas-Canales EM +5 more
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Characterizing and Evaluating the Zoonotic Potential of Novel Viruses Discovered in Vampire Bats. [PDF]
Viruses, 2021 The contemporary surge in metagenomic sequencing has transformed knowledge of viral diversity in wildlife. However, evaluating which newly discovered viruses pose sufficient risk of infecting humans to merit detailed laboratory characterization and ...
Bergner LM +6 more
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Characterization of Three Novel Papillomavirus Genomes in Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus). [PDF]
Animals (Basel)Simple Summary Bats represent a vast number of species, and Chiroptera is the second most diverse order of mammals. Desmodus rotundus, or the common vampire bat, is the most studied haematophagous species, as it is the primary host of the rabies virus in
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Hierarchically embedded scales of movement shape the social networks of vampire bats. [PDF]
Proc Biol SciSocial structure can emerge from hierarchically embedded scales of movement, where movement at one scale is constrained within a larger scale (e.g. among branches, trees, forests).
Hartman CRA +5 more
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Detection of coronavirus in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) in southern Brazil. [PDF]
Transbound Emerg Dis, 2022 The vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a haematophagous animal that feeds exclusively on the blood of domestic mammals. Vampire bat feeding habits enable their contact with mammalian hosts and may enhance zoonotic spillover.
Alves RS +11 more
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Vampire bats rapidly fuel running with essential or non-essential amino acids from a blood meal. [PDF]
Biol LettIn most mammals, running is fuelled by oxidization of endogenous carbohydrates and lipids while amino acids contribute little (
Rossi GS, Welch KC.
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The role of past experience in development of feeding behavior in common vampire bats [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 The life history strategy of common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) suggests that learning might play a role in development of their foraging skills.
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Novel hemotropic mycoplasmas are widespread and genetically diverse in vampire bats. [PDF]
Epidemiol Infect, 2017 Bats (Order: Chiroptera) have been widely studied as reservoir hosts for viruses of concern for human and animal health. However, whether bats are equally competent hosts of non-viral pathogens such as bacteria remains an important open question. Here,
Volokhov DV +7 more
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Identification of viral RNA sequences in vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) from central Mexico
Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 2022 Bats are important reservoirs of viral entities that cause diverse economical and health problems in several sectors. The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of the rabies virus in vampire bats.
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