| west nile virus antibodies in bats from new jersey and new york. | eighty-three serum samples were obtained from big brown (eptesicus fuscus), little brown (myotis lucifugus), and northern long-eared (myotis septentriotalis) bats (chiroptera: vespertilionidae), from new jersey and new york (usa) between july and october 2002. samples were analyzed for neutralizing antibodies to west nile virus (wnv) and st. louis encephalitis (sle) virus. one little brown bat and one northern long-eared bat tested positive for wnv neutralizing antibodies. no bats had antibodies ... | 2004 | 15362837 |
| 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 |
| substrate-gleaning versus aerial-hawking: plasticity in the foraging and echolocation behaviour of the long-eared bat, myotis evotis. | the foraging and echolocation behaviour of myotis evotis was investigated during substrate-gleaning and aerial-hawking attacks. bats gleaned moths from both the ground and a bark-covered trellis, however, they were equally adept at capturing flying moths. the calls emitted by m. evotis during substrate-gleaning sequences were short, broadband, and frequency-modulated (fm). three behavioural phases were identified: search, hover, and attack. gleaning search calls were significantly longer in dura ... | 1994 | 8006859 |
| post-pleistocene range expansion of the recently imperiled eastern little brown bat (myotis lucifugus lucifugus) from a single southern refugium. | myotis lucifugus, once among the most widespread and common bats in north america, has been forecast to be extirpated east of the rockies in as few as 16 years by the spread of white-nose syndrome. recent genetic research has demonstrated that this species is paraphyletic and part of a broader species complex; however, only one lineage (myotis lucifugus lucifugus [m. l. lucifugus]) is present in eastern north america. i used molecular tools and niche modeling to validate this and investigate the ... | 2011 | 22393495 |
| speciation with gene flow in north american myotis bats. | growing evidence supports the idea that species can diverge in the presence of gene flow. however, most methods of phylogeny estimation do not consider this process, despite the fact that ignoring gene flow is known to bias phylogenetic inference. furthermore, studies that do consider divergence-with-gene-flow typically do so by estimating rates of gene flow using a isolation-with-migration model (im), rather than evaluating scenarios of gene flow (such as divergence-with-gene flow or secondary ... | 2017 | 27821704 |
| first record of hosts for tick carios kelleyi (acari: ixodida: argasidae) in canada and montana. | i found carios kelleyi cooley & kohls (formerly ornithodoros kelleyi) (acari: ixodida: argasidae) on five species of bats (eptesicusfuscus, myotis lucifugus, myotis ciliolabrum, myotis evotis, and myotis volans) in the prairies of southeastern alberta and north central montana. this is the first occurrence of ticks on bats in canada. this is also the first record of c. kelleyi on m. evotis and m. volans. dates of parasitization ranged from 22 may to 17 october, and the number of ticks per host r ... | 2005 | 15962805 |
| prevalence of neutralizing antibodies to rabies virus in serum of seven species of insectivorous bats from colorado and new mexico, united states. | we determined the presence of rabies-virus-neutralizing antibodies (rvna) in serum of 721 insectivorous bats of seven species captured, sampled, and released in colorado and new mexico, united states in 2003-2005. a subsample of 160 bats was tested for rabies-virus rna in saliva. we sampled little brown bats (myotis lucifugus) at two maternity roosts in larimer county, colorado; big brown bats (eptesicus fuscus) at three maternity roosts in morgan county, colorado; and big brown bats at five mat ... | 2013 | 23568912 |
| alphacoronaviruses in new world bats: prevalence, persistence, phylogeny, and potential for interaction with humans. | bats are reservoirs for many different coronaviruses (covs) as well as many other important zoonotic viruses. we sampled feces and/or anal swabs of 1,044 insectivorous bats of 2 families and 17 species from 21 different locations within colorado from 2007 to 2009. we detected alphacoronavirus rna in bats of 4 species: big brown bats (eptesicus fuscus), 10% prevalence; long-legged bats (myotis volans), 8% prevalence; little brown bats (myotis lucifugus), 3% prevalence; and western long-eared bats ... | 2011 | 21589915 |