| absent or low rate of adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus of bats (chiroptera). | bats are the only flying mammals and have well developed navigation abilities for 3d-space. even bats with comparatively small home ranges cover much larger territories than rodents, and long-distance migration by some species is unique among small mammals. adult proliferation of neurons, i.e., adult neurogenesis, in the dentate gyrus of rodents is thought to play an important role in spatial memory and learning, as indicated by lesion studies and recordings of neurons active during spatial beha ... | 2007 | 17520014 |
| a novel coccidian (apicomplexa: eimeriidae) from scotophilus leucogaster (chiroptera: vespertilionidae) in southern saudi arabia. | a novel species of coccidia, resembling a member of the genus eimeria, was found in bats, scotophilus leucogaster, collected in southern saudi arabia has been described on the basis of unsporulated oocysts and dna sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer 1 (its1) and partial 18s rdna regions. unsporulated oocysts of this form are ovoidal to spheroidal and had a 2-layered wall, 1.5-2.0 (1.9 ± 0.2); the outer layer was light blue with striations, and thicker than the inner, darker layer. no m ... | 2020 | 33009947 |
| resurrection of an east african house bat species scotophilus altilis allen, 1914 (chiroptera: vespertilionidae). | several house bat specimens superficially resembling the white-bellied house bat scotophilus leucogaster (cretzschmar, 1830), were recently captured in southwestern ethiopia and southern south sudan. these s. cf. leucogaster differed from typical s. leucogaster by their slightly smaller size and ventral coloration, conforming instead with the original description of s. altilis allen, 1914. scotophilus altilis is an overlooked taxon known from the blue nile region in sudan that is currently consi ... | 2019 | 31715741 |