A new selection of scientific articles for the month of May 2012 :
- An article published in PloS One which develops the use of DNA minibarcodes
to detect the diet of mountain murine Plecotus macrobullaris [link to the abstract and PDF].
- A new classification of the family Emballonuridae Old World
published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution [link to the summary].
- A new species of Gender Hipposideros just been described and its name, Hipposideros griffini rend homage au Professeur Donald Redfield Griffin (1915–2003) which initiated extensive research on echolocation in bats [link to the summary].
-Group classification 'turpis’ in Hipposideros just be reviewed with the key two subspecies elevated to full species and one new subspecies described [link to PDF].
- An article published in Nature communications describing the wide variety ofParamyxoviridaein bats (and rodents) [download communication]. Like other viral families (lesCoronaviridae for example) the Paramyxoviridae, comprising the genera Henipavirus (Virus Nipah and Hendra), but alsoRubulavirus (mumps virus: “mumps”) etMorbillivirus (measles virus, and fever virus-of-small-ruminant) have diversified in multiple groups of mammals and especially in large groups such as rodents and bats. We'll go into more detail on this article in a future post.
Otherwise, we remind you 3th international meetings bats Berlin and the Bat Distribution Viewerwhich allows to view distribution maps of bat species worldwide.
The team Chiroblog
References
- Alberdi, A., Garin, I., Aizpurua, O., & Aihartza, J. (2012). The Foraging Ecology of the Mountain Long-Eared Bat Plecotus macrobullaris Revealed with DNA Mini-Barcodes. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e35692.
- Ruedi, M., Friedli-Weyeneth, N., Teeling, It. C., Puechmaille, S. J., & Goodman, S. M. (2012). Biogeography of Old World emballonurine bats (Chiroptera: Emballonuridae) inferred with mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 64(1), 211-204. two:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.03.019
- Thong, V.D., Puechmaille S.J., Denzinger A., Csorba G., Dietz C., Bates P.J.J., Teeling E.C. Schnitzler and H-U. (2012). A new species of Hipposideros (Chiroptera: Hipposideridae) from Vietnam. Journal of Mammalogy, 93(1), 1-11.
-Thong, V.D., Puechmaille S.J., Denzinger A., Bates P.J.J., Dietz C., Csorba G., Soisook P., Teeling E.C., Matsumura S., Furey N. Schnitzler and H-U. (2012). Systematics of the Hipposideros turpis complex with a description of a new subspecies from Vietnam. Mammal Review, 42(2), 166-192.
- Drexler, J. F., Corman, In. M., Miller, M. A., Maganga, G. D., Vallo, P., Binger, T., Gloza noise, FF. et al. (2012). Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses. Nature Communications, 3, 796.
