| differential rates of genic and chromosomal evolution in bats of the family rhinolophidae. | data for nondifferentially stained chromosomes from 10 species of rhinolophus (chiroptera: rhinolophidae) suggest a conserved chromosomal evolution. g-banded chromosomes for three well differentiated species (rhinolophus hipposideros, rhinolophus blasii, and rhinolophus acuminatus) corroborate a low level of gross chromosomal rearrangements. additionally, a comparison between g-banded chromosomes of rhinolophus (rhinolophidae) and hipposideros (hipposideridae) suggests extreme conservatism in ch ... | 1988 | 3169543 |
| identification of the same polyomavirus species in different african horseshoe bat species is indicative of short-range host-switching events. | polyomaviruses (pyvs) are considered to be highly host-specific in different mammalian species, with no well-supported evidence for host-switching events. we examined the species diversity and host specificity of pyvs in horseshoe bats (rhinolophus spp.), a broadly distributed and highly speciose mammalian genus. we annotated six pyv genomes, comprising four new pyv species, based on pairwise identity within the large t antigen (ltag) coding region. phylogenetic comparisons revealed two instance ... | 2017 | 28984241 |
| no apparent ecological trend to the flight-initiating jump performance of five bat species. | the jump performance of five insectivorous bat species (miniopterus schreibersii, myotis blythii, myotis capaccinii, myotis myotis and rhinolophus blasii) was filmed using a high-speed camera. all study bats jumped using a similar technique, with the wing musculature providing the force. the bats jumped off the wrist joint of their wings, typically with their feet already off the ground. contrary to expectations, jump performance did not correlate with ecology and was instead strongly determined ... | 2011 | 21653812 |
| genomic characterization of severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus in european bats and classification of coronaviruses based on partial rna-dependent rna polymerase gene sequences. | bats may host emerging viruses, including coronaviruses (cov). we conducted an evaluation of cov in rhinolophid and vespertilionid bat species common in europe. rhinolophids carried severe acute respiratory syndrome (sars)-related cov at high frequencies and concentrations (26% of animals are positive; up to 2.4×10(8) copies per gram of feces), as well as two alphacoronavirus clades, one novel and one related to the hku2 clade. all three clades present in miniopterus bats in china (hku7, hku8, a ... | 2010 | 20686038 |