| hidden diversity in senegalese bats and associated findings in the systematics of the family vespertilionidae. | the vespertilionidae is the largest family of bats, characterized by high occurrence of morphologically convergent groups, which impedes the study of their evolutionary history. the situation is even more complicated in the tropics, where certain regions remain under-sampled. | 2013 | 23938084 |
| demonstration of 5-methylcytosine-rich dna sequences in chiroptera. | 5-methylcytosine-rich heterochromatic regions were demonstrated in metaphase chromosomes of 5 species of chiroptera by indirect immunofluorescence using a monoclonal anti-5-methylcytosine antibody. these species belong to 4 genera and 2 families and are characterized by divergent karyotypes. one species (glauconycteris beatrix) has an extremely low diploid chromosome number of 2n = 22 with only meta- to submetacentric elements and remarkably large amounts of constitutive heterochromatin located ... | 2017 | 28514774 |
| 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 |