Publications

the luxury effect beyond cities: bats respond to socioeconomic variation across landscapes.	the luxury effect describes the positive relationship between affluence and organism diversity or activity in urban ecosystems. driven by human activities, the luxury effect can potentially be found at a broader scale across different landscapes. previously, the luxury effect relationship has been established within a city for two bat species, the red bat (lasiurus borealis) and the evening bat (nycticeius humeralis). we examined landscape-scale patterns of bat activity distribution-using empiri ...	2019	31676008
first report of bats (mammalia: chiroptera) from the gray fossil site (late miocene or early pliocene), tennessee, usa.	thousands of vertebrate fossils have been recovered from the gray fossil site, tennessee, dating to the miocene-pliocene boundary. among these are but eight specimens of bats representing two different taxa referable to the family vespertilionidae. comparison of the fossils with neogene and quaternary bats reveals that seven of the eight specimens pertain to a species of eptesicus that cannot be distinguished from recent north american eptesicus fuscus. the remaining specimen, a horizontal ramus ...	2017	28462055
interspecific aggression by a rabid eastern red bat (lasiurus borealis).	on 16 march 2012 a rabid eastern red bat (lasiurus borealis) was found attached to an evening bat (nycticeius humeralis) in randolph county, arkansas, usa. this appears to be the first confirmed case of a rabid bat attacking a bat of another species.	2014	24807361
sebaceous lipid profiling of bat integumentary tissues: quantitative analysis of free fatty acids, monoacylglycerides, squalene, and sterols.	white-nose syndrome (wns) is a fungal disease caused by pseudogymnoascus destructans and is devastating north american bat populations. sebaceous lipids secreted from host integumentary tissues are implicated in the initial attachment and recognition of host tissues by pathogenic fungi. we are interested in determining if ratios of lipid classes in sebum can be used as biomarkers to diagnose severity of fungal infection in bats. to first establish lipid compositions in bats, we isolated secreted ...	2013	24327437
analyzing nexrad doppler radar images to assess nightly dispersal patterns and population trends in brazilian free-tailed bats (tadarida brasiliensis).	operators of early weather-surveillance radars often observed echoes on their displays that did not behave like weather pattern, including expanding ring-like shapes they called angels. these echoes were caused by high-flying insects, migrating birds, and large colonies of bats emerging from roosts to feed. modern weather-surveillance radar stations in the united states (next-generation radar or nexrad) provide detailed images that clearly show evening bat emergences from large colonies. these i ...	2008	21669770
rabies in bats from alabama.	data on rabies virus infection in bats that were submitted to the alabama department of public health from 1995-2005 were analyzed. demographic factors, such as species and sex, and temporal aspects, such as yearly and monthly trends, were investigated. thirteen species of bats were submitted, and of those, individuals from seven species were rabid; prevalence was highest in lasiurus borealis and pipistrellus subflavus and lowest in eptesicus fuscus and nycticeius humeralis. there was no differe ...	2007	17495316
bat rabies in south carolina, 1970-90.	this retrospective study examines the geographic and temporal distribution of bat species submitted for rabies testing in south carolina (usa) from 1970 to 1990. histories of human or animal exposures to rabid and nonrabid bats submitted during this time period were compared. two hundred and thirty-one bats were found to be rabid from the 2,657 bats submitted over this 20 yr period. the two species most frequently submitted for testing were lasiurus borealis with 785 specimens (30% of the total) ...	1999	10479091
six new eimeria species from vespertilionid bats of north america.	twenty species of bats (molossidae, vespertilionidae) were collected from california, new mexico, oregon, south carolina, utah, and baja california norte (mexico), and 29 of 404 (7%) animals, including antrozous pallidus, eptesicus fuscus, myotis auriculus, myotis californicus, myotis ciliolabrum, myotis evotis, myotis lucifugus, myotis thysanodes, myotis vivesi, myotis volans, myotis yumanensis, and nycticeius humeralis were infected with eimeria spp., which represent 6 new species. sporulated ...	1999	10386443
temperature regulation in subtropical tree bats.	1. rate of metabolism and temperature regulation were studied in five species of subtropical tree bats (lasiurus seminolus, l. borealis, l. intermedius, l. cinereus and nycticeius humeralis). 2. all species showed two states while resting below thermal neutrality: normothermia and torpor. below 0-5 degrees c, bats in torpor maintained an intermediate body temperature. 3. basal rate of metabolism was lower than expected on the basis of body mass (44-78%) and average body temperature in the normot ...	1993	8095883
length and sequence variation in evening bat d-loop mtdna.	length variation in d-loop mitochondrial dna was observed after amplification with the polymerase chain reaction (pcr) in 28% of 195 evening bats, nycticeius humeralis, from seven colonies. nucleotide sequences of pcr products show that this heteroplasmy is characterized by an 81-bp region which is tandemly repeated five to eight times. southern blots using pcr products as probes on haeiii genomic digests confirm the presence of heteroplasmy. furthermore, densitometry of electrophoresed pcr prod ...	1991	1874418
bat rabies in illinois: 1965 to 1986.	from 1968 to 1986, illinois (usa) citizens and agencies submitted 4,272 bats to the illinois department of public health for rabies testing. of this number, 6% tested positive, a rate comparable to similar studies from other parts of north america. due to sampling biases, the true infection rate among bats in illinois is probably lower than 6%. additional analysis relied on a subsample (n = 2,433) of the specimens collected from 1965 to 1986. prevalences were significantly different among years, ...	1989	2915390
a technique for monitoring the nocturnal activity of bats, with comments on the activity patterns of the evening bat, nycticeius humeralis.		1971	5170639