Helmintos del murciélago Macrotus waterhousii (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) en dos refugios de selva baja caducifolia en el municipio de Huetamo, Michoacán, México

Luviano-Hernández, Jonathan; Tafolla-Venegas, David; Meléndez‐Herrera, Esperanza; Fuentes-Farías, Alma Lilia

doi:10.22201/ib.20078706e.2018.4.2214

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“…In Mexico, studies on bat helminths began in the late 1930s (Chitwood, 1938 ; Stunkard, 1938 ), totalizing 53 helminth species recorded to date (Jiménez et al ., 2017 ; Salinas-Ramos et al ., 2017 ; Luviano-Hernández et al ., 2018 ; Panti-May et al ., 2021 ). On the other hand, the number of bats surveyed for helminths in the country represents roughly 14% of the richness of chiropterans present (Jiménez et al ., 2017 ).…”

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Survey on helminths of bats in the Yucatan Peninsula: infection levels, molecular information and host–parasite networks

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Helminth species of Neotropical bats are poorly known. In Mexico, few studies have been conducted on helminths of bats, especially in regions such as the Yucatan Peninsula where Chiroptera is the mammalian order with the greatest number of species. In this study, we characterized morphologically and molecularly the helminth species of bats and explored their infection levels and parasite–host interactions in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. One hundred and sixty-three bats (representing 21 species) were captured between 2017 and 2022 in 15 sites throughout the Yucatan Peninsula. Conventional morphological techniques and molecular tools were used with the 28S gene to identify the collected helminths. Host–parasite network analyses were carried out to explore interactions by focusing on the level of host species. Helminths were found in 44 (26.9%) bats of 12 species. Twenty helminth taxa were recorded (7 trematodes, 3 cestodes and 10 nematodes), including 4 new host records for the Americas. Prevalence and mean intensity of infection values ranged from 7.1 to 100% and from 1 to 56, respectively. Molecular analyses confirmed the identity of some helminths at species and genus levels; however, some sequences did not correspond to any of the species available on GenBank. The parasite–host network suggests that most of the helminths recorded in bats were host-specific. The highest helminth richness was found in insectivorous bats. This study increases our knowledge of helminths parasitizing Neotropical bats, adding new records and nucleotide sequences.

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