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A second case of white-nose syndrome was detected in Washington in April 2017. The infected bat was a Yuma myotis (Myotis yumanensis), which was the first time the disease has been found in this species. [73] In March 2017, the fungus was found on bats in six north Texas counties, bringing the number of states with the fungus to 33.
A scientist swabs the muzzle of a tricolored bat in a cave in Tennessee. The bat virome is the group of viruses associated with bats.Bats host a diverse array of viruses, including all seven types described by the Baltimore classification system: (I) double-stranded DNA viruses; (II) single-stranded DNA viruses; (III) double-stranded RNA viruses; (IV) positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses ...
That’s happened in other states since the disease was discovered in 2006. White-nose syndrome develops when the fungus, known as Pseudogymnoascus destructans , invades the bats’ skin cells.
The likelihood of infection through animal transmission can be reduced by avoiding exposure to sick pigs, and to bats where the disease is endemic. Bats harbor a significantly higher proportion of zoonotic viruses than all other mammalian orders, [14] and are known not to be affected by the many viruses they carry, apparently due to their ...
The advanced brain characters demonstrated in Pteropus could not, therefore, be generalized to imply that all bats are similar to primates. More recently, the flying primate hypothesis was soundly rejected when scientists compared the DNA of bats to that of primates. These genetic studies support the monophyly of bats. [4] [5] [6] [7]
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Indiana bat populations in the northeastern United States are crashing with the rapid spread of white-nose syndrome, the most devastating wildlife disease in recent history. By the end of 2011, this unprecedented threat had killed 5.7 to 6.7 million bats in the United States since its discovery in 2007 based on photographs taken in 2006. [ 5 ]
Bats have been traditionally thought to be a monophyletic group; according to this model, all living fruit bats and microbats (Microchiroptera) are descendants of a common ancestor species that was already capable of flight. [3] However, there are alternate hypotheses which conclude that bats are polyphyletic.