Predictors and immunological correlates of sublethal mercury exposure in vampire bats. [PDF]
R Soc Open Sci, 2017 Mercury (Hg) is a pervasive heavy metal that often enters the environment from anthropogenic sources such as gold mining and agriculture. Chronic exposure to Hg can impair immune function, reducing the ability of animals to resist or recover from ...
Becker DJ +7 more
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Clinical Presentation and Serologic Response during a Rabies Epizootic in Captive Common Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus) [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2020 We report mortality events in a group of 123 common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) captured in México and housed for a rabies vaccine efficacy study in Madison, Wisconsin.
Elsa M. Cárdenas-Canales +11 more
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Spatial expansions and travelling waves of rabies in vampire bats [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2016 A major obstacle to anticipating the cross-species transmission of zoonotic diseases and developing novel strategies for their control is the scarcity of data informing how these pathogens circulate within natural reservoir populations.
Benavides J, Valderrama W, Streicker D.
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Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli in common vampire bats Desmodus rotundus and livestock in Peru. [PDF]
Zoonoses Public Health, 2018 Antibiotic resistance mediated by bacterial production of extended‐spectrum beta‐lactamase (ESBL) is a global threat to public health. ESBL resistance is most commonly hospital‐acquired; however, infections acquired outside of hospital settings have ...
Benavides JA +8 more
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A method for rapid testing of social learning in vampire bats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2018 Designing experiments on social learning using an untested behaviour or species requires baseline knowledge of how the animals will perform. We conducted a pilot study of a procedure for rapidly testing social learning in the highly social common vampire
Julia K. Vrtilek +4 more
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Reproductive seasonality, sex ratio and philopatry in Argentina's common vampire bats [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2017 Common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are a key rabies vector in South America. Improved management of this species requires long-term, region-specific information.
H. A. Delpietro +4 more
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Habitat fragmentation is associated with dietary shifts and microbiota variability in common vampire bats [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2019 Host ecological factors and external environmental factors are known to influence the structure of gut microbial communities, but few studies have examined the impacts of environmental changes on microbiotas in free‐ranging animals. Rapid land‐use change
Melissa R. Ingala +4 more
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Audition in vampire bats, Desmodus rotundus [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Physiology A, 1990 1. Within the tonotopic organization of the inferior colliculus two frequency ranges are well represented: a frequency range within that of the echolocation signals from 50 to 100 kHz, and a frequency band below that of the echolocation sounds, from 10 ...
A Guppy +21 more
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Vampire Bat Rabies: Ecology, Epidemiology and Control [PDF]
Viruses, 2014 Extensive surveillance in bat populations in response to recent emerging diseases has revealed that this group of mammals acts as a reservoir for a large range of viruses.
Nicholas Johnson +2 more
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Spillover of H5 influenza viruses to vampire bats at the marine-terrestrial interface
bioRxivTu I +30 more
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