Retention and losses of ultraviolet-sensitive visual pigments in bats
Scientific Reports, 2018 Ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive visual pigment and its corresponding ability for UV vision was retained in early mammals from their common ancestry with sauropsids.
Longfei Li +6 more
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Molecular epidemiological tracing of a cattle rabies outbreak lasting less than a month in Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil [PDF]
, 2016 \ud \ud Background\ud Vampire bat-transmitted cattle rabies cases are typically encountered in areas where the disease is endemic.
Adolorata A. B. Carvalho +7 more
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Social effects of rabies infection in male vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus)
bioRxiv, 2022 Rabies virus (RABV) transmitted by the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) poses a threat to agricultural development and public health throughout the Neotropics.
Elsa M. Cárdenas Canales +5 more
semanticscholar +1 more source
Automating the analysis of public saliency and attitudes toward biodiversity from digital media
Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract Measuring public attitudes toward wildlife provides crucial insights into human relationships with nature and helps monitor progress toward Global Biodiversity Framework targets. Yet, conducting such assessments at a global scale presents challenges.
Noah Giebink +8 more
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Ganglion-specific splicing of TRPV1 underlies infrared sensation in vampire bats. [PDF]
, 2011 Vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are obligate blood feeders that have evolved specialized systems to suit their sanguinary lifestyle. Chief among such adaptations is the ability to detect infrared radiation as a means of locating hotspots on warm-blooded
Aranguren, Carla I +7 more
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Phylodynamics of vampire bat-transmitted rabies in Argentina [PDF]
, 2014 Common vampire bat populations distributed from Mexico to Argentina are important rabies reservoir hosts in Latin America. The aim of this work was to analyse the population structure of the rabies virus (RABV) variants associated with vampire bats in ...
Beltran, F. +9 more
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The Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Tim Burton's Christmas trilogy, Batman Returns, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are all characterized by his trademark features. These include characters with ambiguous identities, apparently “normal” worlds adjacent to spaces associated with difference and exclusion, and the inevitable intrusion of the latter into the ...
Fran Pheasant‐Kelly
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Human Rabies and Rabies in Vampire and Nonvampire Bat Species, Southeastern Peru, 2007
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2009 After a human rabies outbreak in southeastern Peru, we collected bats to estimate the prevalence of rabies in various species. Among 165 bats from 6 genera and 10 species, 10.3% were antibody positive; antibody prevalence was similar in vampire and ...
Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich +16 more
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Bioecological Drivers of Rabies Virus Circulation in a Neotropical Bat Community. [PDF]
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2016 INTRODUCTION:In addition to the commonly accepted importance of the vampire bat in the maintenance and transmission of the rabies virus (RABV) in South America, RABV infection of other species is widely evidenced, challenging their role in the viral ...
Benoit de Thoisy +12 more
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Peramorphosis, an evolutionary developmental mechanism in neotropical bat skull diversity [PDF]
, 2019 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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