| [blood parasites of small wild mammals in czechoslovakia]. | the author investigated 4,853 specimens of wild living small mammals (43 species: insectivora, chiroptera, lagomorpha, rodentia, carnivora) from czechoslovakia for blood parasites. trypanosomes were found in talpa europaea, sorex alpinus, crocidura suaveolens, myotis myotis, apodemus sylvaticus, apodemus flavicollis, mus musculus, rattus norvegicus, clethrionomys glareolus and microtus agrestis. babesia was detected in myotis emarginatus, myotis myotis, clethrionomys glareolus, microtus arvalis ... | 1975 | 1158292 |
| 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 |
| pseudogymnoascus destructans: evidence of virulent skin invasion for bats under natural conditions, europe. | while pseudogymnoascus destructans has been responsible for mass bat mortalities from white-nose syndrome (wns) in north america, its virulence in europe has been questioned. to shed the light on the issue of host-pathogen interaction between european bats and p. destructans, we examined seventeen bats emerging from the fungus-positive underground hibernacula in the czech republic during early spring 2013. dual wing-membrane biopsies were taken from barbastella barbastellus (1), myotis daubenton ... | 2015 | 25268034 |
| detection of diverse novel bat astrovirus sequences in the czech republic. | astroviruses are a major cause of gastroenteritis in humans and animals. recently, novel groups of astroviruses were identified in apparently healthy insectivorous bats. we report the detection of diverse novel astrovirus sequences in nine different european bat species: eptesicus serotinus, hypsugo savii, myotis emarginatus, m. mystacinus, nyctalus noctula, pipistrellus nathusii or p. pygmaeus, p. pipistrellus, vespertilio murinus, and rhinolophus hipposideros. in six bat species, astrovirus se ... | 2015 | 26273815 |
| bats in a mediterranean mountainous landscape: does wind farm repowering induce changes at assemblage and species level? | we reported data on flying bat assemblages in a mediterranean mountain landscape of central italy on a 5-year time span (2005-2010) where a wind farm repowering has been carried out (from 2009, 17 three-blade turbines substituted an a priori set of one-blade turbines). in 4 yearly based surveys, we calculated a set of univariate metrics at species and assemblage level and also performing a diversity/dominance analysis (k-dominance plots) to evaluate temporal changes. nine species of bats were pr ... | 2016 | 26952112 |
| novel alphacoronaviruses and paramyxoviruses cocirculate with type 1 and severe acute respiratory system (sars)-related betacoronaviruses in synanthropic bats of luxembourg. | several infectious disease outbreaks with high mortality in humans have been attributed to viruses that are thought to have evolved from bat viruses. in this study from luxembourg, the genetic diversity and epidemiology of paramyxoviruses and coronaviruses shed by the bat species rhinolophus ferrumequinum and myotis emarginatus were evaluated. feces collection (n = 624) was performed longitudinally in a mixed-species colony in 2015 and 2016. in addition, feces (n = 254) were collected cross-sect ... | 2017 | 28710271 |
| phylogenetic analyses of bat-associated bugs (hemiptera: cimicidae: cimicinae and cacodminae) indicate two new species close to cimex lectularius. | bats are regarded as the primary (ancestral) hosts of bugs of the family cimicidae. the historically and economically most important species in the family is the common bedbug (cimex lectularius), because of its worldwide occurrence and association with humans. this molecular-phylogenetic study was initiated in order to expand the knowledge on the phylogeny of cimicid bugs of bats, by investigating samples from hungary, romania (representing central-eastern europe) and two further countries (sou ... | 2017 | 28934957 |
| viral metagenomic profiling of croatian bat population reveals sample and habitat dependent diversity. | to date, the microbiome, as well as the virome of the croatian populations of bats, was unknown. here, we present the results of the first viral metagenomic analysis of guano, feces and saliva (oral swabs) of seven bat species (myotis myotis, miniopterus schreibersii, rhinolophus ferrumequinum, eptesicus serotinus, myotis blythii, myotis nattereri and myotis emarginatus) conducted in mediterranean and continental croatia. viral nucleic acids were extracted from sample pools, and analyzed using i ... | 2020 | 32824037 |
| in silico and empirical evaluation of twelve metabarcoding primer sets for insectivorous diet analyses. | during the most recent decade, environmental dna metabarcoding approaches have been both developed and improved to minimize the biological and technical biases in these protocols. however, challenges remain, notably those relating to primer design. in the current study, we comprehensively assessed the performance of ten coi and two 16s primer pairs for edna metabarcoding, including novel and previously published primers. we used a combined approach of in silico, in vivo-mock community (33 arthro ... | 2020 | 32724515 |
| first isolation of pseudogymnoascus destructans, the fungal causative agent of white-nose disease, in bats from italy. | white-nose disease, caused by the dermatophyte pseudogymnoascus destructans, is a devastating pathology that has caused a massive decline in the us bat populations. in europe, this fungus and the related infection in bats have been recorded in several countries and for many bat species, although no mass mortality has been detected. this study reports for the first time the presence of p. destructans in italy. the fungus was isolated in the rio martino cave, a site located in the western alps and ... | 2019 | 31414314 |