A5071197510- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Multidisciplinary Science and Engineering Research
- Viral Infections and Vectors
- Animal Virus Infections Studies
Texas Tech University
2022
University of Winnipeg
2018-2020
University of Manitoba
2018
Spillover of viruses from bats to other animals may be associated with increased contact between them, as well shedding by bats. Here, we tested the prediction that little brown (Myotis lucifugus) co-infected M. lucifugus coronavirus (Myl-CoV) and Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd), fungus causes bat white-nose syndrome (WNS), exhibit different disease severity, viral molecular responses than infected only Myl-CoV or P. destructans. We took advantage natural persistence in were experimentally...
Understanding how context (e.g., host species, environmental conditions) drives disease susceptibility is an essential goal of ecology. We hypothesized that in bat white-nose syndrome (WNS), species-specific host–pathogen interactions may partly explain varying outcomes among species. characterized and pathogen transcriptomes paired samples lesion-positive lesion-negative wing tissue from bats infected with Pseudogymnoascus destructans three parallel experiments. The first two experiments...
Migration is energetically expensive and predicted to drive similar morphological adaptations physiological trade-offs in migratory bats birds. Previous studies suggest that fixed traits like wing morphology vary among species individuals according selective pressures on flight, while immune defences can flexibly within as energy variably reallocated throughout the year. We assessed intraspecific variation function silver-haired Lasionycteris noctivagans, a follows both partial differential...
The mating behavior of North American tree bats (Lasiurus spp. and Lasionycteris noctivagans) is not well understood. majority records suggest that this group species mates during the autumn migratory period females store sperm throughout winter before resuming reproductive cycle in spring. On 16 May 2019, while mist-netting Bernalillo County, New Mexico, USA, we observed a male female silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris copulating on ground. Both individuals were captured processed to obtain...