Mineralogical and organic study of bat and chough guano: implications for guano identification in ancient context

Bat-guano cave environment.

Is Bat Guano a Reservoir of Geomyces destructans?

Bat guano from six different karst caves in Slovenia was screened by PCR for the presence of Geomyces destructans [1]. Two identical DNA sequences from guano heaps in two of the caves with recent bat droppings were retrieved. These sequences were closely related to several unidentified Geomyces clones and to pathogenic G. destructans, but definitive identification remained elusive. Despite the ...

Group C Betacoronavirus in Bat Guano Fertilizer, Thailand

these, 41.2% were characterized as GII.3 (mostly with a GII.Pb pol), 26.5% as GII. Pg_GII.1, and 17.6% as GII.4 variants. From spring to fall 2012, the variant New Orleans 2009 became the predominant GII.4 strain, and the variant Sydney 2012 strain apparently disappeared. During November–December 2012 and January 2013, ISGEV detected NoV infection in 90 (28.9%) of 311 children hospitalized for ...

Genetic Characterization of Providence Virus Isolated from Bat Guano in Hungary

We report the complete genome sequence and genetic characterization of a novel strain of Providence virus, detected in Barbastella barbastellus bat guano, collected in Hungary in 2014. Our data may facilitate the understanding of the evolutionary processes of this unique viral family of Carmotetraviridae.

Nutritional implications for nitrogen and mineral budgets from analysis of guano of the big brown bat Eptesicus fuscus (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae).

1. Analysis of nitrogen, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and potassium levels in big brown bat guano throughout much of the summer roosting period was performed. 2. Based on the tenet that low, non-variable levels of an element in feces indicate dietary inadequacy for that element, female big brown bats are routinely and severely stressed for calcium and may become stressed for iron by the en...