Bat functional traits associated with environmental, landscape, and conservation variables in Neotropical dry forests by Camila A. Díaz-B, Aída Otálora-Ardila, María Camila Valdés-Cardona, Hugo F. López-Arévalo, Olga L. Montenegro

“…Tropical dry forests are among the most threatened ecosystems worldwide. Bats' role in those ecosystems is critical because of multiple bat-mediated processes. …”
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Effects of turbine height and cut-in speed on bat and swallow fatalities at wind energy facilities by Alexandra M. Anderson, Catherine B. Jardine, J.R. Zimmerling, Erin F. Baerwald, Christina M. Davy

“…In contrast, fatalities of little brown bat (Myotis lucifugus Le Conte, 1831) and eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis Müller, 1776) decreased with increased turbine height. …”
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Assessing Rabies Vaccine Protection against a Novel Lyssavirus, Kotalahti Bat Lyssavirus by Rebecca Shipley, Edward Wright, Fabian Z. X. Lean, David Selden, Daniel L. Horton, Anthony R. Fooks, Ashley C. Banyard

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Greater Horseshoe Bats Recognize the Sex and Individual Identity of Conspecifics from Their Echolocation Calls by Xiao Tan, Aiqing Lin, Keping Sun, Longru Jin, Jiang Feng

Subjects: “…bats…”
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Diversity of the Cave-Dwelling Bat (Chiroptera) in the Ngobaran Coastal Area, Karst of Gunung Sewu by Tatag Bagus Putra Prakarsa, Rizka Apriani Putri, Yunita Fera Rahmawati, Abdullah Dolah Dalee

Subjects: “…bat cave, biospeleology, chiroptera, diversity, gunung sewu…”
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Timing of emergence and cave return, and duration of nocturnal activity in an endemic Malagasy fruit bat by Riana V. Ramanantsalama, Steven M. Goodman

“… Bats emerge from their day roost after dusk and different factors can affect the timing of departure, return, and duration of nocturnal activities. …”
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The complete mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic analysis of two Nycteribiidae bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea) by Megan L. Porter, Holly Lutz, Mireille Steck, Rebecca A. Chong

Subjects: “…bat fly…”
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The Geographical Differences in the Bird Prey of the Great Evening Bat (<i>Ia io</i>) by Yu Liu, Hui Wu, Lixin Gong, Yingying Liu, Tinglei Jiang, Jiang Feng

Subjects: “…bird-eating bats…”
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Antiviral effects of micafungin against pteropine orthoreovirus, an emerging zoonotic virus carried by bats by Eiichi Hondo, Tetsufumi Katta, Ayato Sato, Naoya Kadofusa, Tomoki Ishibashi, Hiroshi Shimoda, Hirokazu Katoh, Atsuo Iida

“…Bat-borne emerging zoonotic viruses cause major outbreaks, such as the Ebola virus, Nipah virus, and/or beta coronavirus. …”
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The agony of choice: Species richness and range size in the determination of hotspots for the conservation of phyllostomid bats by José D. Cú-Vizcarra, Fabricio Villalobos, M. Cristina MacSwiney G., Vinicio J. Sosa, Beatriz Bolívar-Cimé

“…To inform conservation assessments for the New World leaf-nosed bats (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae), we identified hotspots based simultaneously on species richness and rarity of 214 species. …”
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Genomic representation predicts an asymptotic host adaptation of bat coronaviruses using deep learning by Jing Li, Fengjuan Tian, Sen Zhang, Shun-Shuai Liu, Xiao-Ping Kang, Ya-Dan Li, Jun-Qing Wei, Wei Lin, Zhongyi Lei, Ye Feng, Jia-Fu Jiang, Tao Jiang, Yigang Tong

Subjects: “…bat coronavirus…”
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Filovirus receptor NPC1 contributes to species-specific patterns of ebolavirus susceptibility in bats by Melinda Ng, Esther Ndungo, Maria E Kaczmarek, Andrew S Herbert, Tabea Binger, Ana I Kuehne, Rohit K Jangra, John A Hawkins, Robert J Gifford, Rohan Biswas, Ann Demogines, Rebekah M James, Meng Yu, Thijn R Brummelkamp, Christian Drosten, Lin-Fa Wang, Jens H Kuhn, Marcel A Müller, John M Dye, Sara L Sawyer, Kartik Chandran

“…While filoviruses infect diverse mammalian cell lines, we report that cells from African straw-colored fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) are refractory to EBOV infection. …”
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Inverted Worlds, Nocturnal States and Flying Mammals: Bats and Their Symbolic Meaning in Moche Iconography by Aleksa K. Alaica

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HLA-BAT1 alters migration, invasion and pro-inflammatory cytokines in prostate cancer by Aileen M. García-Vargas, Aileen M. García-Vargas, Yarelis M. Roque-Reyes, Yarelis M. Roque-Reyes, Desiree M. Arroyo-Villegas, Desiree M. Arroyo-Villegas, Daniel Santiago-Negron, Daniel Santiago-Negron, María M. Sánchez-Vázquez, Alejandro Rivera-Torres, Alejandro Rivera-Torres, Andrea C. Reyes-Meléndez, Andrea C. Reyes-Meléndez, Valerie Cardona-Berdecía, Valerie Cardona-Berdecía, Miosotis García-Maldonado, Olga M. Víquez, Magaly Martínez-Ferrer, Magaly Martínez-Ferrer

“…The objective of this study is to understand the role of BAT1 in prostate cancer. In vitro studies showed that BAT1 down-regulation increased cell migration and invasion. …”
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The Ectodomains of rBAT and 4F2hc Are Fake or Orphan α-Glucosidases by Joana Fort, Adrià Nicolàs-Aragó, Manuel Palacín

“…It is known that 4F2hc and rBAT are the heavy subunits of the heteromeric amino acid transporters (HATs). …”
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Bats expand their vocal range by recruiting different laryngeal structures for echolocation and social communication by Jonas Håkansson, Cathrine Mikkelsen, Lasse Jakobsen, Coen P. H. Elemans

“…Echolocating bats produce very diverse vocal signals for echolocation and social communication that span an impressive frequency range of 1 to 120 kHz or 7 octaves. …”
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New records on distribution and habitat of the lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae) in Honduras by José M. Mora, Mario R. Espinal, Lucia I. López

“…The lesser long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris yerbabuenae Martínez &amp;amp; Villa-R, 1940) is a specialized nectar feeding species found from southern USA to Nicaragua in Central America, mostly in dry forest. …”
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Cross-Species Transmission of Bat Coronaviruses in the Americas: Contrasting Patterns between Alphacoronavirus and Betacoronavirus by Diego A. Caraballo

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Confirmation of the existence of Himalayan long-eared bats, Plecotus homochrous (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), in China by Pengfei Luo, Xiangyang He, Yuzhi Zhang, Jianping Ye, Min Guo, Jin Deng, Chunhui Zhou, Jiang Zhou, Libiao Zhang

“…The existence of Himalayan long-eared bats, Plecotus homochrous (Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae), in China has not been previously confirmed. …”
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Gastrointestinal digeneans (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) of horseshoe and vesper bats (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae and Vespertilionidae) in Serbia by Horvat Ž., Čabrilo B., Paunović M., Karapandža B., Jovanović J., Budinski I., Bjelić Čabrilo O.

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