KOZHIKODE: Prof. Stephen Luby, the Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases & Geographic Medicine) at Stanford University in the United States, has said Pteropus genus fruit bat hosts the Nipah ...

Bat genomes are characterised by an A-T richness and by a small C-value compared with other mammalian groups. It has been suggested that the small C-value is mainly due to the lack of repetitive DNA ...

Without at least a temporary reprieve from hunting, the world's largest species of fruit bat, Pteropus vampyrus or the "large flying fox", could be driven to extinction in Peninsular Malaysia at the ...

This photo post comes via Mongabay’s partnership with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Wild View blog. Under this partnership, we publish occasional original contributions from Wild View that ...