... study reveals the physiological and behavioural adaptability of Bechstein's bat maternity colonies to cooler conditions, while highlighting their limited abilities to cope energetically with high temperatures. Chiroptera Climate change Field respirometry Global warming Specific dynamic action...

... the immunogenic substance is administered. Chiroptera Lipopolysaccharide Innate immune response Activity period Resting period Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001807 2017–17607–6 2014/16320-7 Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do...

... by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2022 Summary: The contractile properties of wing muscles in a temperate bat species have evolved a low thermal dependence similar to a tropical bat species, despite differences in each species' range of flight temperatures. Chiroptera Contractile properties...

...: Measurement of the vocal compensation of Daubenton's bats to masking noise reveals that bats defend echo-to-noise ratios by increasing call amplitude but not by spectrally adjusting calls. Chiroptera Biosonar Jamming avoidance response Lombard response Acoustic interference Natur og Univers...

.... and Rayner , J. M. V. ( 1988 ). Flight performance, foraging tactics and echolocation in free-living Daubenton's bats Myotis daubentoni (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) . J. Zool. 215 , 113 - 132 . 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb04888.x Jones , G. and Rayner , J. M. V. ( 1989...

... mammals. Immunology Leukocytes Life history Flight Allometry Chiroptera Scaling Powered flight has evolved at least three times in the evolutionary history of vertebrates and yet is one of the most energetically costly modes of transportation ( Rayner, 1988 ). Birds and bats experience...

... 2020 http://www.biologists.com/user-licence-1-1/ Summary: Analysis of the cortisol–oxidative stress relationship, and the effect of simultaneous exposure to prolonged stress and an immune challenge in the insular bat Myotis vivesi . ACTH Antioxidants Chiroptera Cortisol Immune...

... attain adult-like echolocation behaviours before adult-like flight behaviours. Chiroptera Laryngeal echolocation Vespertilionidae Vocal development Bats are uniquely characterized as the only mammals capable of powered flight. While a minority of today's bat species do not echolocate...

... by migratory bats during daytime roosting at stopovers is independent of ambient temperature as a result of facultative adjustment of torpor. Chiroptera Heterothermy Energy budget Thermoregulation Behavioural and physiological differences among species can lead to divergent migration patterns...

.... , Jacobs , D. S. and Matthee , C. A. ( 2005 ). A nuclear DNA phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of echolocation and historical biogeography of extant bats (chiroptera) . Mol. Biol. Evol.   22 , 1869 - 1886 . 10.1093/molbev/msi180 Faure , P. A. and Barclay , R. M. R...

... . BMC Genomics 13 , 59 . Norberg U. M. , Rayner J. M. V. ( 1987 ). Ecological morphology and flight in bats (Mammalia; Chiroptera): wing adaptations, flight performance, foraging strategy and echolocation . Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B 316 , 335 - 427 . Ransome R. D...

... flight speeds for flying animals. However, the theoretical U-shaped flight power curve has not been robustly tested for Chiroptera, the only mammals capable of flapping flight. We examined the metabolic rate of seven Seba's short-tailed fruit bats ( Carollia perspicillata ) during unrestrained flight...

... a bat's ability to gain sufficient body mass before hibernation. [email protected] COMPETING INTERESTS No competing interests declared. 25 8 2012 28 12 2012 © 2013. 2013 energetics chiroptera white-nose syndrome wing damage Since the emergence...

..., University of Winnipeg, 515 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3B 2E9 ( [email protected] ) 22 3 2012 8 11 2012 © 2013. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd 2013 Chiroptera digestive organ exercise organ lipids hoary bat Lasiurus cinereus migration...

...Christian C. Voigt; Ivailo M. Borrisov; Silke L. Voigt-Heucke SUMMARY The evolution of powered flight involved major morphological changes in Chiroptera. Nevertheless, all bats are also capable of crawling on the ground and some are even skilled sprinters. We asked if a highly derived morphology...

... overlapping, time-smeared echoes (i.e. background acoustic clutter). We make four specific, testable predictions arising from this hypothesis. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 2 4 2012 14 5 2012 © 2012. 2012 Chiroptera calling behaviour signal design...

... use by flying foxes Genus Pteropus . Ecology 79 , 1949 - 1967 . Bhat H. R. ( 1994 ). Observations on the food and feeding behaviour of Cynopterus sphinx Vahl Chiroptera; Pteropodidae at Pune, India . Mammalia 58 , 363 - 370 . Carpenter R. E. ( 1986 ). Flight...

... to feeding performance. * Author for correspondence ( [email protected] ) 14 2 2010 © 2010. 2010 bite force lever mechanics 3-D modeling chiroptera feeding performance Measurements and estimates of whole-organism performance have provided useful information for studies...

...), much more than in non-flying mammals. * Author for correspondence (e-mail: [email protected] ) 1 3 2007 © The Company of Biologists Limited 2007 2007 paracellular nutrient uptake carbohydrate absorption Chiroptera Egyptian fruit bat Rousettus aegyptiacus...

...Daniel K. Riskin; Stuart Parsons; William A. Schutt, Jr; Gerald G. Carter; John W. Hermanson SUMMARY Bats (Chiroptera) are generally awkward crawlers, but the common vampire bat ( Desmodus rotundus ) and the New Zealand short-tailed bat( Mystacina tuberculata ) have independently evolved...