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A species of American bat devastated by a fungus is now classified as endangered

A species of American bat devastated by a fungus is now classified as endangered

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — The Biden administration declared the northern bat endangered on Tuesday in a last-ditch effort to save a species driven to the brink of extinction by white-nose syndrome, a fungal disease. “White-nose syndrome is decimating cave bat species like the northern myotis at an unprecedented rate,” said Martha Williams, director of …

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Researchers find repeated genetic duplications and genetic diversification in protein kinase R in mouse-eared bats

Researchers find repeated genetic duplications and genetic diversification in protein kinase R in mouse-eared bats

1) for each codon (X axis). Red bars indicate sites with a BEB > 0.95. The numbers in parentheses represent the total number of species analyzed. Viral antagonists: herpes virus US11, influenza A virus (IAV) NS1A, poxvirus E3 and K3 (green striped boxes), hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS5A and human immunodeficiency virus Tat, which interact …

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