Sentences with phrase «vampire bat populations»
A major factor in the increase has been the growing numbers of livestock across the continent, which has allowed vampire bat populations to more than double in some places.
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Furthermore, the authors show that the technique can be used to simultaneously assess the vampire bat's population structure.
In diet studies, the DNA metabarcoding technique is normally only used to assess diet, but in this study the researchers go one step further and show for the first time that the technique can also give insights into the vampire bat's population structure.
«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.
It also would have applicability to vampire bats, which also tend to have rabies circulating among populations.