First application of satellite telemetry to track African straw-coloured fruit bat migration
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Quantifying the ecological impact of the straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) in West Africa
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BACKGROUND Straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) migrate over vast distances across the African continent, probably following seasonal bursts of resource availability. This causes enormous fluctuations in population size, which in turn may influence the bats' impact on local ecosystems. We studied the movement ecology of this central-place forager with state-of-the-art GPS/acceleration log...
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Bats are important reservoirs for emerging zoonotic viruses. For extensive surveys of potential pathogens in straw-colored fruit bats (Eidolon helvum) in Zambia, a total of 107 spleen samples of E. helvum in 2006 were inoculated onto Vero E6 cells. The cell culture inoculated with one of the samples (ZFB06-106) exhibited remarkable cytopathic changes. Based on the ultrastructural property in ne...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Zoology
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0952-8369,1469-7998
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2008.00425.x