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Killer fungus spreads to endangered gray bats: US

A deadly fungus that has wiped out large populations of bats in North America has spread to a new species, the endangered gray bat, US wildlife officials said Tuesday.

Biology / Ecology

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Hitting snooze on the molecular clock: Rabies evolves slower in hibernating bats

The rate at which the rabies virus evolves in bats may depend heavily upon the ecological traits of its hosts, according to researchers at the University of Georgia, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 18, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Great Tit Turns Out to be a Killer

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Great Tit is an aggressive songbird found in Britain, continental Europe, parts of Northern Africa, and much of Asia. It is believed to survive mostly on seeds, nuts, fruit, insects, beetles, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 12 weblog

Fungus causes white-nose syndrome in bats, researchers confirm

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have proven that the fungus Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome, a fast-spreading and highly lethal disease of bats.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hibernation keeps rabies going in bats

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, infectious disease biologist Dylan George from Colorado State University reports that a bat’s hibernation is wha ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

Scientists find drugs that may fight bat disease

(AP) -- Scientists may have found some ways to help the nation's bats, which are being wiped out by a novel fungal disease, an unprecedented wildlife crisis.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Bats facing regional extinction from rapidly spreading disease

A new infectious disease spreading rapidly across the northeastern United States has killed millions of bats and is predicted to cause regional extinction of a once-common bat species, according to the findings of a University ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

We're off then: The evolution of bat migration

(PhysOrg.com) -- Not just birds, but also a few species of bats face a long journey every year. Researchers at Princeton University in the U.S. and at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Radolfzell, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Forest Service closes caves to stop bat fungus

(AP) -- The U.S. Forest Service is closing thousands of caves and former mines in national forests in 33 states in an effort to control a fungus that has already killed an estimated 500,000 bats.

Biology / Ecology

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Fungus sweeps across the country, killing bats

More than 100 hibernating bats hang from the vaulted ceiling of a chilly gallery in central New Mexico's Fort Stanton Cave, seemingly unaware of the lights from helmet lanterns sweeping over their gargoyle-like faces.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Culling can't control deadly bat disease

Culling will not stop the spread of a deadly fungus that is threatening to wipe out hibernating bats in North America, according to a new mathematical model.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Daylight could help control our weight

Exciting research into Brown adipose tissue (BAT) — brown fat, which is found in abundance in hibernating animals and newborn babies — could lead to new ways of preventing obesity.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Deadly bat disease is spreading west

A disease killing more than 1 million with a mortality rate close to 100 percent continues to sweep across the country. First detected in New York in 2006, it is now found in 14 states in the East and South, leaving starvation ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jun 22, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0