BACKGROUND How migration evolved represents one of the most poignant questions in evolutionary biology. While studies on the evolution of migration in birds are well represented in the literature, migration in bats has received relatively little attention. Yet, more than 30 species of bats are known to migrate annually from breeding to non-breeding locations. Our study is the first to test hypo...

the purpose of this study was to estimate relative potential hazards to birds and bats from wind developments in texas. we compiled lists of rare, threatened, or endangered species, along with their respective ranges in texas. using a geographic information system (gis), we calculated a potential hazard index (phi) for 31 bird and ten bat species based upon the percentage of known or observed ...

background: the objectives of our research were to search for leishmania species in rodents in fars province, south of iran, and to compare molecular with conventional methods for detecting these para-sites. methods: rodents were captured using live traps and screened for leishmania species using molecular and conventional methods, including the taking of smears from each ear. nested pcr was em...

reports on distribution and abundance of bats from iran exist since mid-nineteen century, but studies on this subject are very scarce and have been conducted very infrequently by european biologists who visited iran occasionally. until now, six caves have been investigated and eight species of cave-dwelling bats have been reported from ilam province in south-western iran. the present paper has ...

b a ckground: zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (zcl) is endemic in many parts of iran. recently its incidence isconsiderable in different parts of jahrom district, in fars province, southern iran. the aims of our study were to in- vestigate the prevalence of leishmania infection, and identify and characterize the   leishmania species present, among the rodents by molecular methods in a new ende...

The minimum distance for which two points still can be separated from each other defines the resolving power of a visual system. In an echo-acoustic context, the resolving power is usually measured as the smallest perceivable distance of two reflecting surfaces on the range axis and is found to be around half a millimeter for bats employing frequency modulated (FM) echolocation calls. Only few ...