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Social bet-hedging in vampire bats. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2017 Helping kin or nonkin can provide direct fitness benefits, but helping kin also benefits indirect fitness. Why then should organisms invest in cooperative partnerships with nonkin, if kin relationships are available and more beneficial? One explanation is that a kin-limited support network is too small and risky.
Carter GG, Farine DR, Wilkinson GS.
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What is a hologenomic adaptation? Emergent individuality and inter-identity in multispecies systems [PDF]
, 2020 Contemporary biological research has suggested that some host–microbiome multispecies systems (referred to as “holobionts”) can in certain circumstances evolve as unique biological individual, thus being a unit of selection in evolution.
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Vampire Bat Control in Mexico [PDF]
Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde, 1970 Though usually beneficial, bats sometimes are a nuisance to humans (Greenhall & Stell, 1960), or may even constitute serious economic problems and health hazards. Most important in this respect are the vampire bats, especially of the genus Desmodus, which are abundant from northern Argentina through the whole of Latin America to the north of Mexico ...
Schmidt, U. +2 more
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Current Biology, 2019 Gerald Wilkinson introduces the blood-drinking vampire bats.
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Livestock abundance predicts vampire bat demography, immune profiles, and bacterial infection risk [PDF]
, 2018 Human activities create novel food resources that can alter wildlife–pathogen interactions. If resources amplify or dampen, pathogen transmission probably depends on both host ecology and pathogen biology, but studies that measure responses to ...
Altizer, Sonia +13 more
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Classification of human breathing sounds by the common vampire bat,
BMC Biology, 2006 Background The common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus is one of three bat species that feed exclusively on the blood of mammals often more than 1000 times its size. Vampire bats even feed on human blood.
Wiegrebe Lutz, Gröger Udo
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2015 Regulatory evolution is thought to be fundamental to adaptive evolution. However, the identification of specific regulatory changes responsible for adaptation are sparse. Bats of the family Phyllostomidae, owing to their unparalleled rate of ecological
Caleb Dakotah Phillips +4 more
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Parasitologia, 2023 Although bats can serve as reservoirs for several viruses and bacteria, there is limited knowledge regarding the diversity of apicomplexan protozoan belonging to the Piroplasmida and Haemosporida orders within this group of mammals.
Victória Valente Califre de Mello +7 more
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A database of common vampire bat reports [PDF]
Scientific Data, 2022 AbstractThe common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) is a sanguivorous (i.e., blood-eating) bat species distributed in the Americas from northern Mexico southwards to central Chile and Argentina. Desmodus rotundus is one of only three mammal species known to feed exclusively on blood, mainly from domestic mammals, although large wildlife and occasionally
Paige Van de Vuurst +10 more
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Paralytic rabies in swine [PDF]
, 2011 Rabies transmitted by vampire bats was diagnosed in pigs with paralysis of the pelvic limbs. Diffuse nonsuppurative encephalomyelitis, affecting mainly the spinal cord, was observed histologically.
BRANDÃO, Paulo Eduardo +6 more
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