Sentences with phrase «studies of bats»

Further studies of bats and potential interim hosts are urgently needed to elucidate the origin of MERS - CoV.

Residents also voted to fund a woman's self - defense class and a study of bats in Prospect Park in Councilman Lander's budget.

Councilman's Lander Participatory Budget proposals include a study of bats in Prospect Park and a senior fitness playground.

Researchers led by Carlos Ibanez at Spain's Estación Biológica de Doñana in Seville assembled their evidence from an ongoing study of bat fecal pellets.

But during a recent study of the bat, Buden discovered that a German naturalist voyaging on a Russian expedition had observed and named the animal some 50 years earlier.

Previous studies of BAT transplantation in mice, which transplanted BAT in a different location and had a shorter duration, did not show beneficial effects.

North American studies of bat deaths and wind turbines have found bats are killed either by being struck by turbine blades or by air pressure changes caused by the turbines that burst blood vessels in their lungs.

A study of bat deaths at a local wind farm by the University of Calgary reported by Science Daily found that the majority of migratory bats in this location were killed because a sudden drop in air pressure near the blades caused injuries to the bats» lungs known as barotrauma.

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A suite of studies are addressing the distribution of birds and bats on the Outer Continental Shelf.

Market participants closely studied ECB President Mario Draghi's accompanying remarks for any clues about the path ahead for monetary policy, but he batted away suggestions of any changes to the ECB's bond - purchasing program.

He stays in top shape year round and studies videotapes of pitchers and of his at bats.

Add an increasing number of studies examining how these bats achieve such high levels of performance, and the proliferation of such information through the game - changer that is The Almighty Internet, and the result is some heavily disseminated ways to tweak legal bats above the allowed performance levels.

One study, reported in the June 2013 issue of Neuroimage, found that exclusive breast feeding improved brain development in children «almost right off the bat» by increasing myelin content in the brain by an order of 20 - 30 percent compared to strictly formula - fed babies.

Now, a study of walruses and bats has shown that mothers and babies in these species also cuddle on the left — even when the baby is the one choosing the side.

In a second postdoc, he studied the biomechanics of bat flight with Sharon Swartz and Kenneth Breuer at Brown University.

Hristov then did a postdoc with Thomas Kunz at Boston University using thermal imaging and 3D visualization to study bat behavior in the Texas Hill Country and to get a more accurate census of the Brazilian free - tailed bat population at Carlsbad Cavern in New Mexico.

GOING VIRAL Genetic studies of viruses from horseshoe bats (shown) in one cave in China suggest the animals are reservoirs of SARS coronaviruses.

What's new in the Czech study, explains pathologist Carol Meteyer of the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Madison, Wisc., is the confirmation of tissue damage characteristic of clinical white - nose sydrome: skin being digested by the pathogen as the fungi's fibrous segments enter a bat's wing and begin replacing its cells.

As part of the study, EcoHealth Alliance's modeling team mapped the geographic distribution of all known bat hosts for these viruses, and found that Guinea and Liberia lie within the expected range of Zaire Ebola — the strain responsible for the current outbreak.

One of these contacts led to my involvement in a 3 - year investigation of the performance differences in wood and metal bats, including development of a 3D computer simulation to study bat performance.

«The parallels in echolocation between the bats and the dolphins are striking,» says Brock Fenton, who studies the evolution of bat bones linked with echolocation at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

He and other skyflyers based their spectacular stunts on studies of the science of flight, although in Sohn's case it was technology that failed him: His career as a human bat ended in 1937 after a double chute malfunction in France.

Therefore the researchers have to rely on a range of special, expensive equipment to study the life of bats.

Previous studies have determined that higher affluence is frequently associated with more biological diversity across species of plants, birds, bats, and lizards — a phenomenon coined the «luxury effect.»

But some bats sport another type of grooved tongue — one that scientists haven't studied in depth.

Dr. Michael M. Yartsev, Research Associate and C.V. Starr Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University receives the US$ 25,000 research prize for his work using the bat as an unusual animal model to study the underlying neural mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation in the mammalian brain.

On a freezing winter night, Łukasz Bożycki found three of these bunkers while studying overwintering bats.

The role of bat parasites in maintaining chains of viral infection is little studied, and the new Wisconsin study serves up some intriguing insights into how viruses co-opt parasites to help do the dirty work of disease transmission.

More recently, they made recordings of the sounds using special recording equipment designed to study bat calls.

In this study, 95.5 percent of wing biopsies that targeted areas of fluorescence were microscopically positive for WNS lesions, while again 100 percent of bats that did not fluoresce were negative for WNS.

The study cites the 1969 case of a British dockworker bitten by an unknown insect while unloading peanuts from Nigeria, and who was subsequently infected by Le Dantec virus, a relative of the virus Goldberg and his colleagues found in abundance in the bat flies they sampled.

It is a fruit bat and was trapped, tested and released by Goldberg's colleague and study co-author Robert Kityo of Uganda's Makerere University in Kampala.

«Our work demonstrates one of the most advanced designs to date of a self - contained flapping - winged aerial robot with bat morphology that is able to perform autonomous flight,» explained Alireza Ramezani, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Illinois who is the first author of the cover article, «A Biomimetic Robotic Platform to Study Flight Specializations of Bats,» appearing in AAAS Science Robotics on February 1.

Well they all hang upside down, but a Brown University study of three species of bats in the journal Experimental Biology found at least two completely different methods of landing in that upside down position.

bat genome linked to wing development that could help in the study of hand and feet abnormalities;

Biologists have used Bookstein's methods to study a whole bestiary of animals: bats, fishes, midges, mice, coral, shrews, and even pinworms.

According a report accompanying the bill, the total includes an additional $ 500,000 to study white - nose syndrome, the fungal disease that has been killing millions of bats.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences describes the previously undiscovered technology employed by the bat Glossophaga soricina: a tongue tip that uses blood flow to erect scores of little hair - like structures exactly at the right time to slurp up extra nectar from within a flower.

Study co-author Professor Paul Scofield of Canterbury Museum says: «These bats, along with land turtles and crocodiles, show that major groups of animals have been lost from New Zealand.

Study co-author, Associate Professor Trevor Worthy of Flinders University says: «The fossils of this spectacular bat and several others in the St Bathans Fauna show that the prehistoric aviary that was New Zealand also included a surprising diversity of furry critters alongside the birds.»

After analyzing the genes of about a thousand bats, the researchers studied the exact composition of the MHC genes as well as the molecular structure of three families of olfactory receptor genes: TAAR2, TAAR3 and TAAR8.

«Bark beetle outbreaks transformed former production forests into a growing wilderness that offers great possibilities for the conservation of the barbastelle bat,» said Mareike Kortmann, lead author of the Animal Conservation study.

Now, a new study lead by Assistant Professor Kristine Bohmann from the Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, describes a new DNA method to efficiently screen many vampire bat blood meal and faecal samples with a high success rate and thereby determine which animals the vampire bats have fed on blood from.

This study represents the only research done so far on endogenous retroviruses of New World bats and suggests there is still much to be learned about vampire bats as viral reservoirs.

«We were surprised to get a result that suggests that vampire bats may not be the reservoir for this retrovirus but might have been infected independently of monkeys and rats by a yet undiscovered reservoir,» says Marina Escalera, leading author of the study.

«This new method to simultaneously screen many vampire bat samples for both diet and population structure is of value to future studies on vampire bat biology and for assessment of vampire bat related pathogen transmission risks.

In the new study, the researchers first tested their idea on the wings of 168 bats that had been submitted to the U.S. Geological Survey National Wildlife Health Center from March 2009 to April 2012.

Christian Voigt from the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and scientists from the University of Tel Aviv and the Doñana Biological Station in Sevilla tested in their study if tropical trees benefit from hosting bats in large cavities at the base of trunks.

Russell has long studied the acoustics of sports equipment, including baseball bats, tennis rackets and hockey sticks.

«Study of deadly bat disease finds surprising seasonal pattern of infections.»