Mist nets, harp traps and roost searches resulted in the eight bat species being recorded in Telperion Nature Reserve,
which is in a transition between the Savanna and Grassland biomes. The majority of these were species ...
Animal-associated microbiotas form complex communities, which play crucial functions for their host, including susceptibility to infections. Despite increasing attention to bats as reservoirs of zoonotic pathogens, their ...
Species within the Neoromicia bat genus are abundant and widely distributed in Africa. It is
common for these insectivorous bats to roost in anthropogenic structures in urban regions.
Additionally, Neoromicia capensis ...
Dietrich, Muriel; Kearney, Teresa; Seamark, E.C.J. (Ernest); Paweska, Janusz Tadeusz; Markotter, Wanda(Royal Society Publishing, 2018)
Seasonal reproduction is a period of extreme physiological
and behavioural changes, yet we know little about how
it may affect host microbial communities (i.e. microbiota)
and pathogen transmission. Here, we investigated ...
