Abstract Knowledge of species' functional traits is essential for understanding biodiversity
patterns, predicting the impacts of global environmental changes, and assessing the …

Host ecological factors and external environmental factors are known to influence the
structure of gut microbial communities, but few studies have examined the impacts of …

Most emerging pathogens can infect multiple species, underlining the importance of
understanding the ecological and evolutionary factors that allow some hosts to harbour …

DNA metabarcoding assays are powerful tools for delving into the DNA in wildlife feces,
giving unprecedented ability to detect species, understand natural history, and identify …

Hemotropic mycoplasmas are emerging as a model system for studying bacterial pathogens
in bats, but taxonomic coverage of sampled host species remains biased. We leveraged a …

Understanding roosting behaviour is essential to bat conservation and biomonitoring, often
providing the most accurate methods of assessing bat population size and health. However …

Contaminants such as mercury are pervasive and can have immunosuppressive effects on
wildlife. Impaired immunity could be important for forecasting pathogen spillover, as many …

Bats and birds are the only living vertebrates capable of powered flight. However, bats differ
from birds in that their flight required the evolution of ascending landing maneuvers that …

In the Neotropics, vampire bats (Desmodus rotundus) are the main reservoir host for rabies,
a highly fatal encephalitis caused by viruses in the genus Lyssavirus. Although patterns of …

Bat species commonly comprise at least 50% of tropical mammalian assemblages, but
Afrotropical bat faunas have been little studied leading to perceptions that they are …