Host specificity gauges the degree to which a parasite occurs in association with a single
host species. The measure is indicative of properties of the host and parasite, as well as …

Bats are known to harbor and transmit many emerging and re-emerging viruses, many of
which are extremely pathogenic in humans but do not cause overt pathology in their bat …

Some filoviruses can be transmitted to humans by zoonotic spillover events from their
natural host and filovirus outbreaks have occured with increasing frequency in the last years …

The Yellow-shouldered bats, Genus Sturnira, are widespread, diverse, and abundant
throughout the Neotropical Region, but little is known of their phylogeny and biogeography …

Study of all flies (Diptera) collected for one year from a four-hectare (150 x 266 meter) patch
of cloud forest at 1,600 meters above sea level at Zurquí de Moravia, San José Province …

The Smithsonian Venezuela Project (SVP) conducted extensive surveys of mammals and
ectoparasites in the 1960s. The 25 238 individuals and 130 species of bat collected by SVP …

Bats are reservoirs of important zoonotic viruses like Nipah and SARS viruses. However,
whether the blood-sucking arthropods on the body surface of bats also carry these viruses …

This paper describes and illustrates five new species of Gloeandromyces (Ascomycota,
Laboulbeniales) associated with tropical American bat flies (Diptera, Streblidae). These are …

Global loss of biodiversity is an ongoing process that concerns both local and global
authorities. Studies of biodiversity mainly involve traditional methods using morphological …

The importance of species that connect the different types of interactions is becoming
increasingly recognized, and this role may be related to specific attributes of these species …