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The northernmost findings of the Alcathoe bat (Myotis alcathoe von Helversen & Heller, 2001) in Poland. THERIOLOGIA UKRAINICA 2020. [DOI: 10.15407/tu1909] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
Abstract
The Alcathoe bat Myotis alcathoe (von Helversen, Heller, 2001) is a newly described species of the cryptic complex of whiskered bat species living in sympatry across Europe. The habitats preferred by this species are natural, moist and deciduous forests with old trees and water streams. The majority of known locations of this species come from highlands, foothills and mountainous regions while practically not occurring in the lower elevations. They come mainly from cave areas, where bats were caught during autumn swarming, while records in other seasons are much less frequent. Currently, individual sites in Poland also come from lowlands, beyond the range of the mountains and uplands, which indicates a possible wider range of this species. The bats were captured using mist-nests in the Silesian Lowlands for three consecutive years (2013–2015). The localities were placed in various forest environments, ranging in elevation from 100 to 260 m a.s.l. Bats were initially identified based on morphological features, then the correctness of identification was confirmed by molecular methods. Two females and five males of Myotis alcathoe were captured into four new locations from the lowlands of Poland: Przemków, Głębowice, Chodlewo, and Dalkowskie Jary (Silesian Lowland). Old trees and a small watercourse were important elements in all these locations. Currently, these findings are the northernmost locations of the species in Poland and one of the northernmost locations in Central Europe. The latest findings of the species are located about 50 km to the south, but the vast majority of the rest of locations is from the foothills belt. This finding suggests that the species may inhabit regions much further north than previously suggested, and the limiting factor is the presence of old trees in wet environments.
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Roswag A, Becker NI, Drangusch R, Kuhring K, Ohlendorf B, Encarnação JA. Teasing apart cryptic species groups: Nutritional ecology and its implications for species-specific conservation of theMyotis mystacinusgroup. POPUL ECOL 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/1438-390x.1003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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- Anna Roswag
- Mammalian Ecology Group, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics; Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen; Germany
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- Mammalian Ecology Group, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics; Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen; Germany
- inatu.re, Institute for Applied Animal Ecology and Ecoinformatics; Lollar Germany
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- Workgroup of Bat Conservation in Saxony-Anhalt e.V; Stolberg Germany
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- Workgroup of Bat Conservation in Saxony-Anhalt e.V; Stolberg Germany
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- Biosphärenreservat Karstlandschaft Südharz; Landesreferenzstelle für Fledermausschutz Sachsen-Anhalt; Germany
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- Mammalian Ecology Group, Department of Animal Ecology and Systematics; Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen; Germany
- inatu.re, Institute for Applied Animal Ecology and Ecoinformatics; Lollar Germany
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Bashta AT, Ivashkiv I, Krokhmal A. New records of Myotis alcathoe (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) in Ukraine. THERIOLOGIA UKRAINICA 2018. [DOI: 10.15407/pts2018.16.163] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Segura-Trujillo CA, Willig MR, Álvarez-Castañeda ST. Correspondence between ecomorphotype and use of arthropod resources by bats of the genus Myotis. J Mammal 2018. [DOI: 10.1093/jmammal/gyy049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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- Cintya A Segura-Trujillo
- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C. Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México (CAS-T, STA-C)
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- Center for Environmental Sciences & Engineering and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, 3107 Horsebarn Hill Road, Storrs, CT 06269-4210, USA (MRW)
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- Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C. Av. Instituto Politécnico Nacional 195, Playa Palo de Santa Rita Sur, La Paz, Baja California Sur, México (CAS-T, STA-C)
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Corduneanu A, Hrazdilová K, Sándor AD, Matei IA, Ionică AM, Barti L, Ciocănău MA, Măntoiu DȘ, Coroiu I, Hornok S, Fuehrer HP, Leitner N, Bagó Z, Stefke K, Modrý D, Mihalca AD. Babesia vesperuginis, a neglected piroplasmid: new host and geographical records, and phylogenetic relations. Parasit Vectors 2017; 10:598. [PMID: 29208011 PMCID: PMC5718032 DOI: 10.1186/s13071-017-2536-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2017] [Accepted: 11/14/2017] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Babesia spp. are hemoparasites which infect the red blood cells of a large variety of mammals. In bats, the only known species of the genus is Babesia vesperuginis. However, except a few old reports, the host range and geographical distribution of this bat parasite have been poorly studied. This study aimed to investigate the presence of piroplasms in tissues of bats collected in four different countries from eastern and central Europe: Austria, Czech Republic, Hungary and Romania. METHODS A total of 461 bat carcasses (24 species) were collected between 2001 and 2016 from caves, mines and buildings. PCR was performed using specific primers targeting a portion of the 18S rDNA nuclear gene and cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 mitochondrial gene, followed by sequencing. RESULTS The results of this study show for the first time the presence of B. vesperuginis in bats in central and eastern Europe. The phylogenetic analysis of the 18S rDNA nuclear gene revealed no variability between the sequences and the phylogenetic analysis of the cox1 mitochondrial gene proved that B. vesperuginis could be divided into two subclades. CONCLUSION Our study showed a broad geographical distribution of B. vesperuginis in European bats, reporting its presence in five new host species (M. cf. alcathoe, M. bechsteinii, M. myotis, Pi. nathusii and V. murinus) and three new countries.
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- Alexandra Corduneanu
- Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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- CEITEC VFU, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Virology, Veterinary Research Institute, Hudcova 296/70, 621 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Romanian Bat Protection Association- Central Branch, Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania
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- Department of Infection Diseases, University of Agronomical Sciences and Veterinary Medicine, Bucharest, Romania
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- Faculty of Biology and Geology, University Babes- Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary
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- Institute of Parasitology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Parasitology, Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria
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- Institute for Veterinary Disease Control, Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES), Robert Koch Gasse 17, 2340, Mödling, Austria
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- CEITEC VFU, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.,Department of Pathology and Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.,Biology Centre, Institute of Parasitology, Czech Academy of Sciences, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
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- Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Cluj-Napoca, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Russo D, Cistrone L, Libralato N, Korine C, Jones G, Ancillotto L. Adverse effects of artificial illumination on bat drinking activity. Anim Conserv 2017. [DOI: 10.1111/acv.12340] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- D. Russo
- Wildlife Research Unit; Laboratorio di Ecologia Applicata; Sezione di Biologia e Protezione dei Sistemi Agrari e Forestali; Dipartimento di Agraria; Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Portici (Napoli) Italy
- School of Biological Sciences; University of Bristol; Bristol UK
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- Forestry and Conservation; Cassino (Frosinone) Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia e Biotecnologie “Charles Darwin”; Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza; Roma Italy
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- Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology; Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research; Ben-Gurion University of the Negev; Midreshet Ben-Gurion Israel
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- School of Biological Sciences; University of Bristol; Bristol UK
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- Wildlife Research Unit; Laboratorio di Ecologia Applicata; Sezione di Biologia e Protezione dei Sistemi Agrari e Forestali; Dipartimento di Agraria; Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II; Portici (Napoli) Italy
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Kohyt J, Rozik A, Kozakiewicz K, Pereswiet-Soltan A, Gubała WJ. Activity pattern and fat accumulation strategy of the Natterer’s bat (Vespertilionidae, Chiroptera) swarming population indicate the exact time of male mating effort. MAMMAL RES 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/s13364-016-0285-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Bogdanowicz W, Piksa K, Tereba A. Hybridization hotspots at bat swarming sites. PLoS One 2012; 7:e53334. [PMID: 23300912 PMCID: PMC3532499 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053334] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2012] [Accepted: 11/29/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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During late summer and early autumn in temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, thousands of bats gather at caves, mainly for the purpose of mating. We demonstrated that this swarming behavior most probably leads not only to breeding among bats of the same species but also interbreeding between different species. Using 14 nuclear microsatellites and three different methods (the Bayesian assignment approaches of STRUCTURE and NEWHYBRIDS and a principal coordinate analysis of pairwise genetic distances), we analyzed 375 individuals belonging to three species of whiskered bats (genus Myotis) at swarming sites across their sympatric range in southern Poland. The overall hybridization rate varied from 3.2 to 7.2%. At the species level, depending on the method used, these values ranged from 2.1-4.6% in M. mystacinus and 3.0-3.7% in M. brandtii to 6.5-30.4% in M. alcathoe. Hybrids occurred in about half of the caves we studied. In all three species, the sex ratio of hybrids was biased towards males but the observed differences did not differ statistically from those noted at the population level. In our opinion, factors leading to the formation of these admixed individuals and their relatively high frequency are: i) swarming behaviour at swarming sites, where high numbers of bats belonging to several species meet; ii) male-biased sex ratio during the swarming period; iii) the fact that all these bats are generally polygynous. The highly different population sizes of different species at swarming sites may also play some role. Swarming sites may represent unique hybrid hotspots, which, as there are at least 2,000 caves in the Polish Carpathians alone, may occur on a massive scale not previously observed for any group of mammal species in the wild. Evidently, these sites should be treated as focal points for the conservation of biodiversity and evolutionary processes.
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- Wiesław Bogdanowicz
- Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa, Poland.
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- M. Plank
- Department of Animal Biodiversity University of Vienna Vienna Austria
- Austrian Coordination Centre for Bat Conservation and Research (KFFOE) Leonding Austria
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- Department of Animal Biodiversity University of Vienna Vienna Austria
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- Austrian Coordination Centre for Bat Conservation and Research (KFFOE) Leonding Austria
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Bashta AT, Piskorski M, Mysłajek RW, Tereba A, Kurek K, Sachanowicz K. Myotis alcathoein Poland and Ukraine: new data on its status and habitat in Central Europe. FOLIA ZOOLOGICA 2011. [DOI: 10.25225/fozo.v60.i1.a1.2011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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- Andriy-Taras Bashta
- Institute of Ecology of the Carpathians, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kozelnytska st. 4, Lviv, 79026 Ukraine
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- Department of Comparative Anatomy and Anthropology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Akademicka 19, 20-033 Lublin, Poland
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warszawa, Poland;,
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- Faculty of Biology, University of Warsaw, Miecznikowa 1, 02-096 Warszawa, Poland
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- Museum and Institute of Zoology Polish Academy of Sciences, Wilcza 64, 00-679 Warszawa, Poland;,
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