Birds and Bats
Comparative Analyses of Vertebrate Gut Microbiomes Reveal Convergence between Birds and Bats
... and birds and bats both have more compact genomes than their flightless relatives, most likely due to extensive DNA loss— hypothesized to be related to powerful ongoing selection to reduce mass and enhance ...
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What it takes to fly: the structural and functional respiratory refinements in birds and bats
... in bats compared with that of the non- flying mammals ...In bats, in which the respiratory rate is synchronized with the wing beat, wider alveoli may provide an energy-saving scheme by reducing the surface ...
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Scale effects on the stresses and safety factors in the wing bones of birds and bats
... between birds and bats in nearly half the cases, notably the bending moments on the radio-ulna (radius) in gliding and in the downstroke in ...where birds and bats differed, the slope was ...
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Obese super athletes: fat fueled migration in birds and bats
... migratory birds. The increased demands placed on migratory birds to digest food and process nutrients into fat are met by increases in the size and functional capacity of the gut and ...allows birds ...
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PubMedCentral-PMC5046949.pdf
... of bats (Myotis velifer), birds (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) and fish (Danio aequipinnatus) to those predicted by the DRCA algor- ...the birds and bats will agree more closely with the DRCA ...
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The transfer of 137Cs, Pu isotopes and 90Sr to bird, bat and ground dwelling small mammal species within the Chernobyl exclusion zone
... between birds and bats were not consistent between radioisotopes, with 137 Cs activity concen- trations being higher in birds and 90 Sr concentrations higher in ...in bats was signif- icantly ...
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Behavior of bats at wind turbines
... for bats to mistake wind turbines for trees is the possibility that they expect important resources when they arrive at the ...migrating birds, which radar detected in apparently high abundance in the ...
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Articles
... for bats, birds and vascular plants; a sampling of selected cemetery sections (n= 30) and selected family graves for lichens and bryophytes; and a sampling of 10 x 10 m plots (one in each of 30 selected ...
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Structure of an Ensemble of Insectivorous Bats
... Schoener (1974) argued that temporal partitioning is the least employed means of partitioning and, as such, is uncommon. However, evidence demonstrates its real or potential importance (Cotton 1998; Weltzin and ...
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Further miniaturisation of the Thermochron iButton to create a thermal bio logger weighing 0 3 g
... of potential species that can be studied. Globally, and especially for terrestrial species, body mass distributions of taxonomic groups tend to be unimodal and strongly skewed to the right (Gaston and Blackburn, 2000). ...
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Promiscuous Enzyme Activity as a Driver of Allo and Iso Convergent Evolution, Lessons from the -Lactamases
... transition is more probable than transversion, and in the genomes of some vertebrates' taxa, another important form of mutation bias involves changes at CpG dinucleotides: if the DNA nucleotide cytosine (C) is ...
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Genetic diversity of the Yokose virus, XYBX1332, isolated from bats (Myotis daubentonii) in China
... in bats, further suggesting that bats may be the host ani- mal for SARS ...of bats, it has been sug- gested that YOKV can exist in bats, may be occasionally in the long ...to bats? In ...
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Sugars are complementary resources to ethanol in foods consumed by Egyptian fruit bats
... Diet mixing in herbivores may have its roots in non-additive interactions, e.g. complementarity, between the resources they consume (Bjorndal, 1991). Fruits are chemically complex resources (Cipollini, 2000), and this ...
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Diversity of bird community in Hohhot
... summer birds composed basically stable. Feeding habits of most birds have obvious changes, basic food grain-eating birds and omnivorous birds to animal food, one of the reasons is the summer ...
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The caged bird in Roman life and poetry; metaphor, cognition, and value
... on birds (in aves morbosus) has three cardeles (normally cardueles), goldfinches (it is not quite clear where they were kept: the father says that he killed them and claimed that a mustella (weasel) killed them, ...
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Update on rabies
... Unfortunately, no similar studies have been performed in a bat model of rabies in which the exposures are much more superficial involving the epidermis, dermis, and/or subcutaneous tissues. The skin is richly innervated ...
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Volitional control of social vocalisations and vocal usage learning in bats
... spear-nosed bats (Phyllostomus ...reward, bats responded by adjusting temporal and spectral call ...isolated bats, overcoming limitations that have, until now, prevented in-depth studies of these ...
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Rediscovery of short-tailed bats (Mystacina sp.) in Fiordland, New Zealand: Preliminary observations of taxonomy, echolocation calls, population size, home range, and habitat use
... short-tailed bats are believed to attract mates by using audible song at the entrances of singing cavities (Daniel, ...stationary bats was recorded throughout the night on all eight nights in February when ...
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Bats of coastal southwestern Tasmania
... of bats or coastal southwestern Tasmania was undertaken as part of a general fauna survey conducted while traversing the coast on foot from Bond Bay north to Macquarie Heads between 9 February and 11 March 1993 ...
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Novel Astroviruses in Insectivorous Bats
... Evidence of recombination between astroviruses and also between coronaviruses is well documented (13, 24, 27). It has been reported that a stem-loop motif in the 3 ⬘ UTR was found conserved in mamastroviruses, turkey ...
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