Sentences with phrase «vampire bat which»

Scientists discovered a new retrovirus «fossil» found in the common vampire bat which is homologous to retroviruses in rodents and primates.

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The skeleton veggies would be in a pile, the yogurt spider webs would be all mixed in, the parts of the eyeball pasta would be swirled into the mixture and unidentifiable, the little bat thingees would be smooshed into the exposed jam on the vampire sandwich (which would be stuck to the lid).»

Rocke's lab is working on a topical vaccine against white - nose syndrome, which threatens bats (SN Online: 3/31/16), and one to combat rabies in common vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus).

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.

In order to control rabies transmitted by vampire bats, it is crucial to have a method that allows large - scale assessment of which animals the vampire bats feed from.

In this regard they resembled vampire bats, which use a «quadrupedal launch» to accelerate quickly, Habib says.

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.

Most cases of rabies in Latin America are caused by vampire bats, which bite victims at night and feed on their blood.

It has therefore been long suspected that vampire bats have highly specific evolutionary adaptations, which would be documented in their genome, and most likely also have an unusual microbiome, the community of micro-organisms assembled in their digestive tract which may help with the digestion of blood.

It also would have applicability to vampire bats, which also tend to have rabies circulating among populations.