| [trichostrongyloidea nematodes, parasites of microchiroptera]. | 1. a) list of nematodes collected by professor aellen in european microchiroptera. additionnal morphological data to the study of molinostrongylus alatus, m. panousei, m. skrjabini. description of m. aelleni n. sp. b) description of m. richardae n. sp., m. benexae n. sp. et m. bauchoti n. sp., parasites of malagasian molossidae. c) description of m. colleyi n. sp. and m. owyangi n. sp., parasites of malaysian vespertilioninae, and of allintoschius dunni n. sp., discovered in myotis mystacinus fr ... | 1975 | 1211768 |
| [new nematodes of the genus trichospirura smith and chitwood, 1967, in malaysia. remarks on the evolution of the family rhabdochonidae (author's transl)]. | description of trichospirura willmottae n. sp. parasite of the salivary ducts of tupaia glis and t. sp. (single virgin female) parasite of the intestine of myotis mystacinus in malaysia. the two species are very closely related to the type species, a parasite of the pancreatic ducts of brasilian primates, and can be differentiated mainly by the mensurations of the posterior extremities of the bodies. while the genus rhabdochoma, parasite of the intestine of fresh-water fishes, underwent a very s ... | 1975 | 1227382 |
| babesia vesperuginis: natural and experimental infections in british bats (microchiroptera). | babesia vesperuginis is described from blood of two species of british bat: pipistrellus pipistrellus and myotis mystacinus. reticulocytes appeared significantly elevated in blood films of p. pipistrellus infected with b. vesperuginis compared with uninfected laboratory-maintained bats or apparently uninfected wild-caught bats. infected captive bats had significantly enlarged spleens. b. vesperuginis was transmitted by inoculation of infected blood to 5 uninfected captive p. pipistrellus. the co ... | 1987 | 3696774 |
| karyotypes of seven species of bats from thailand (chiroptera, mammalia). | karyotypes of myotis siligorensis, myotis mystacinus, pipistrellus pulveratus, tylonycteris robustula, miniopterus schreibersi fuliginosus, hipposideros fulvus and aselliscus stoliczkanus from thailand are investigated. | 1985 | 4076410 |
| renal coccidiosis with cystic tubular dilatation in four bats. | renal coccidiosis was diagnosed in four bats of different species (pipistrellus pipistrellus, myotis mystacinus, m. nattereri, and nyctalus noctula). multiple white and partly indented foci up to 2 mm in diameter were visible on the renal surface. histologically, the foci appeared as cystic dilated tubules with proliferated epithelium. asexual and sexual coccidian stages were seen in the epithelial cells, and the extremely distended tubular lumina were filled with schizonts, free zoites, microga ... | 1996 | 8817846 |
| cryptic mammalian species: a new species of whiskered bat (myotis alcathoe n. sp.) in europe. | the analysis of morphological, behavioural and genetic characters of whiskered bats revealed a new european bat species within the family vespertilionidae. we describe the morphology, karyology, genetic similarity, ecology and distribution of myotis alcathoe n. sp. it closely resembles myotis mystacinus, myotis brandtii and myotis ikonnikovi in morphology, but all four species show clear genetic differences in two mitochondrial genes (nd1 and 12s rrna). myotis alcathoe n. sp. is the smallest spe ... | 2001 | 11482435 |
| cryptic diversity in european bats. | different species of bat can be morphologically very similar. in order to estimate the amount of cryptic diversity among european bats we screened the intra- and interspecific genetic variation in 26 european vespertilionid bat species. we sequenced the dna of subunit 1 of the mitochondrial protein nadh dehydrogenase (nd1) from several individuals of a species, which were sampled in a variety of geographical regions. a phylogeny based on the mitochondrial (mt) dna data is in good agreement with ... | 2001 | 11522202 |
| the status of the japanese and east asian bats of the genus myotis (vespertilionidae) based on mitochondrial sequences. | the genus myotis includes the largest number of species in the family vespertilionidae (chiroptera), and its members are distributed throughout most of the world. to re-evaluate the phylogenetic position of east asian myotis species with respect to myotis species worldwide, we analyzed mitochondrial gene sequences of nadh dehydrogenase subunit 1 and cytochrome b from 24 east asian individuals as well as 42 vespertilionid bats determined previously. the results suggest that: (1) some individuals ... | 2003 | 12878466 |
| flight and echolocation behaviour of whiskered bats commuting along a hedgerow: range-dependent sonar signal design, doppler tolerance and evidence for 'acoustic focussing'. | echolocating bats obtain three-dimensional images of their surroundings in complete darkness by emitting sonar signals and evaluating returning echoes. when flying close to objects, bats risk collision and therefore depend on the accuracy of images--particularly in the perceived distance of obstacles, which is coded by the time delay between call and echo. yet, during flight, such accuracy is perturbed first because bats call and receive echoes at different positions and second because echoes ar ... | 2006 | 16651548 |
| heavy metal contamination in bats in britain. | toxic metals are bioaccumulated by insectivorous mammals but few studies (none from britain) have quantified residues in bats. we measured renal mercury (hg), lead (pb) and cadmium (cd) concentrations in bats from south-west england to determine how they varied with species, sex, age, and over time, and if they were likely to cause adverse effects. residues were generally highest in whiskered bats (myotis mystacinus). compared with other species, pipistrelle (pipistrellus spp) and natterer's bat ... | 2007 | 17257720 |
| the application of genetic markers for eblv surveillance in european bat species. | the united kingdom has performed passive surveillance for european bat lyssaviruses (eblvs) since 1987, and species-targeted surveillance since 2003. one critical component of these studies is the accurate identification of bats either submitted for testing or sampled in the field. identification is dependent on numerous morphological characteristics. whilst this is an effective means of bat identification, a number of problems remain with this approach. it relies on the experience of bat specia ... | 2008 | 18634497 |
| heavy metals and metallothionein in vespertilionid bats foraging over aquatic habitats in the czech republic. | there has been growing interest in the study and conservation of bats throughout the world. declines in their absolute numbers in recent decades are due, in part, to the fact that insectivorous bats may bioaccumulate toxic pollutants. the purpose of the present study was to quantify heavy metal concentrations in kidney, liver, and pectoral muscle samples in relation to metallothionein (mt) levels. in total, 106 bats belonging to 11 european species (i.e., myotis myotis, myotis daubentonii, myoti ... | 2010 | 20821471 |
| detection and genome characterization of four novel bat hepadnaviruses and a hepevirus in china. | in recent years, novel hepadnaviruses, hepeviruses, hepatoviruses, and hepaciviruses have been discovered in various species of bat around the world, indicating that bats may act as natural reservoirs for these hepatitis viruses. in order to further assess the distribution of hepatitis viruses in bat populations in china, we tested the presence of these hepatitis viruses in our archived bat liver samples that originated from several bat species and various geographical regions in china. | 2017 | 28222808 |
| bats as reservoir hosts of human bacterial pathogen, bartonella mayotimonensis. | a plethora of pathogenic viruses colonize bats. however, bat bacterial flora and its zoonotic threat remain ill defined. in a study initially conducted as a quantitative metagenomic analysis of the fecal bacterial flora of the daubenton's bat in finland, we unexpectedly detected dna of several hemotrophic and ectoparasite-transmitted bacterial genera, including bartonella. bartonella spp. also were either detected or isolated from the peripheral blood of daubenton's, northern, and whiskered bats ... | 2014 | 24856523 |
| complete mitochondrial genome and codon usage of the nepalese whiskered bat myotis muricola (vespertilionidae). | we sequenced and characterized the complete mitogenome of the nepalese whiskered bat myotis muricola (vespertilionidae) to provide more data for comparative mitogenomics and codon usage in the genus myotis (vespertilionidae). the mitogenome of m. muricola is a circular molecule of 17,224 bp, consisting of a control region and a conserved set of 37 genes containing 13 protein-coding genes (pcgs), 22 trna genes, and two rrna genes (12s rrna and 16s rrna). the mitogenome of m. muricola is at-biased ... | 2015 | 26600523 |
| tracking diet preferences of bats using stable isotope and fatty acid signatures of faeces. | stable isotope and fatty acid signatures of biomaterials can provide important information about the dietary niche of animals. stable isotope and fatty acid signatures differ between aquatic and terrestrial food webs, and therefore can be used to assess the aquatic and terrestrial contributions to the diets of species. we studied faecal samples of three co-occurring bat species with known differences in feeding preferences. the aim was to assess whether stable isotope and fatty acid signatures o ... | 2013 | 24376703 |
| predicting species distributions using record centre data: multi-scale modelling of habitat suitability for bat roosts. | conservation increasingly operates at the landscape scale. for this to be effective, we need landscape scale information on species distributions and the environmental factors that underpin them. species records are becoming increasingly available via data centres and online portals, but they are often patchy and biased. we demonstrate how such data can yield useful habitat suitability models, using bat roost records as an example. we analysed the effects of environmental variables at eight spat ... | 2015 | 26053548 |
| hybridization hotspots at bat swarming sites. | during late summer and early autumn in temperate zones of the northern hemisphere, thousands of bats gather at caves, mainly for the purpose of mating. we demonstrated that this swarming behavior most probably leads not only to breeding among bats of the same species but also interbreeding between different species. using 14 nuclear microsatellites and three different methods (the bayesian assignment approaches of structure and newhybrids and a principal coordinate analysis of pairwise genetic d ... | 2012 | 23300912 |
| prey field switching based on preferential behaviour can induce lévy flights. | using the foraging movements of an insectivorous bat, myotis mystacinus, we describe temporal switching of foraging behaviour in response to resource availability. these observations conform to predictions of optimized search under the lévy flight paradigm. however, we suggest that this occurs as a result of a preference behaviour and knowledge of resource distribution. preferential behaviour and knowledge of a familiar area generate distinct movement patterns as resource availability changes on ... | 2013 | 23054951 |
| hidden in our pockets: building of a dna barcode library unveils the first record of myotis alcathoe for portugal. | the advent and boom of dna barcoding technologies have provided a powerful tool for the fields of ecology and systematics. here, we present the inbio barcoding initiative database: portuguese bats (chiroptera) dataset containing dna sequences of 63 specimens representing the 25 bat species currently known for continental portugal. for that, we sequenced tissues samples obtained in a vast array of projects spanning the last two decades. | 2020 | 32821211 |
| home range size, habitat selection and roost use by the whiskered bat (myotis mystacinus) in human-dominated montane landscapes. | our understanding of animal adaptations to human pressure is limited by the focus on rare taxa, despite that common species are more significant in shaping structure, function and service provision of ecosystems. thus better understanding of their ecology and behavioural adjustments is central for drafting conservation actions. in this study, we used radio-telemetry on 21 individuals (10 females, 11 males) to provide data on spatial ecology, habitat selection and use of roosts of one of the comm ... | 2020 | 33035231 |
| patterns of mtdna introgression suggest population replacement in palaearctic whiskered bat species. | secondary contacts can play a major role in the evolutionary histories of species. various taxa diverge in allopatry and later on come into secondary contact during range expansions. when they meet, their interactions and the extent of gene flow depend on the level of their ecological differentiation and the strength of their reproductive isolation. in this study, we present the multilocus phylogeography of two cryptic whiskered bat species, myotis mystacinus and m. davidii, with a particular fo ... | 2020 | 32742679 |