Zoology

Roosting ecology and the evolution of bat landing maneuvers

1. David B. Boerma
2. Sharon M. Swartz

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  Evaluation Summary:

  Bat landings are remarkable because they are typically inverted and can involve two, three or four limbs securing the substrate, ranging from cave ceilings to leaves. How different bat species accomplish landing in such a remarkable dynamic fashion and how this ability may have evolved is a mystery. Boersma and Swartz resolved this question by studying how a wide range of bat species land in a unique biomechanics field study conducted across the world, which they complemented with a phylogenetic analysis that provides new insights into how bat landing behavior may have evolved in relation to substrate mechanics. The new evolutionary insight into how bat landing style relates to peak substrate contact force will be of interest to comparative biomechanists, movement ecologists and evolutionary biologists alike. Finally, the markedly different landing strategies for complex natural surfaces may inspire roboticists to design more effective landing and grasping solutions for complex surfaces.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. The reviewers remained anonymous to the authors.)

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High Seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in White-Tailed Deer (Odocoileus virginianus) at One of Three Captive Cervid Facilities in Texas

1. Christopher M. Roundy
2. Chase M. Nunez
3. Logan F. Thomas
4. Lisa D. Auckland
5. Wendy Tang
6. Jack J. Richison
7. Breanna R. Green
8. Clayton D. Hilton
9. Michael J. Cherry
10. Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa
11. Gabriel L. Hamer
12. Walter E. Cook
13. Sarah A. Hamer

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Total virome characterizations of game animals in China reveals a spectrum of emerging viral pathogens

1. Wan-Ting He
2. Xin Hou
3. Jin Zhao
4. Jiumeng Sun
5. Haijian He
6. Wei Si
7. Jing Wang
8. Zhiwen Jiang
9. Ziqing Yan
10. Gang Xing
11. Meng Lu
12. Marc A. Suchard
13. Xiang Ji
14. Wenjie Gong
15. Biao He
16. Jun Li
17. Philippe Lemey
18. Deyin Guo
19. Changchun Tu
20. Edward C. Holmes
21. Mang Shi
22. Shuo Su

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Experimental evidence for delayed post-conflict management behaviour in wild dwarf mongooses

1. Amy Morris-Drake
2. Julie M Kern
3. Andrew N Radford

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This article will be of interest to behavioural ecologists studying aggression, within-group conflict, communication, and the use of social information. The study elegantly combines well-designed experiments with field observations to investigate the effects of within-group conflict on social behaviour. Specifically, it expands our understanding of social dynamics in group-living species by providing evidence that bystanders of within-group conflict may play a role in maintaining group cohesion. The findings provide a valuable contribution, and contrast, to existing work in this field.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #1 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

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Reversal of the adipostat control of torpor during migration in hummingbirds

1. Erich R Eberts
2. Christopher G Guglielmo
3. Kenneth C Welch

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This study substantially advances our understanding of why, when, and how wild birds use daily torpor as an energetic strategy. A technically challenging combination of carefully controlled experiments on temporarily captive wild birds along with frequent respiratory measurements and whole-body composition measurements was key to making this advance.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. The reviewers remained anonymous to the authors.)

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Image3C, a multimodal image-based and label-independent integrative method for single-cell analysis

1. Alice Accorsi
2. Andrew C Box
3. Robert Peuß
4. Christopher Wood
5. Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado
6. Nicolas Rohner

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This manuscript develops new software tools to analyze and classify single cells with high throughput based on single cell phenotyping using an existing imaging system. The authors show that tissues can be reproducibly decomposed into clusters of cells based on their feature space and that cell composition dynamics can be reliably detected. The main impact is to make single cell phenotyping more tractable, including for samples and organisms for which sequencing-based or fluorescent-labeling-based approaches are not readily available. Applicability was demonstrated in two research model organisms, zebrafish and freshwater snail.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. The reviewers remained anonymous to the authors.)

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SARS-COV-2 INFECTION AND LONGITUDINAL FECAL SCREENING IN MALAYAN TIGERS (PANTHERA TIGRIS JACKSONI), AMUR TIGERS (PANTHERA TIGRIS ALTAICA ), AND AFRICAN LIONS (PANTHERA LEO KRUGERI) AT THE BRONX ZOO, NEW YORK, USA

1. Susan L. Bartlett
2. Diego G. Diel
3. Leyi Wang
4. Stephanie Zec
5. Melissa Laverack
6. Mathias Martins
7. Leonardo Cardia Caserta
8. Mary Lea Killian
9. Karen Terio
10. Colleen Olmstead
11. Martha A. Delaney
12. Tracy Stokol
13. Marina Ivančić
14. Melinda Jenkins-Moore
15. Karen Ingerman
16. Taryn Teegan
17. Colleen McCann
18. Patrick Thomas
19. Denise McAloose
20. John M. Sykes
21. Paul P. Calle

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Natural SARS-CoV-2 infections, including virus isolation, among serially tested cats and dogs in households with confirmed human COVID-19 cases in Texas, USA

1. Sarah A. Hamer
2. Alex Pauvolid-Corrêa
3. Italo B. Zecca
4. Edward Davila
5. Lisa D. Auckland
6. Christopher M. Roundy
7. Wendy Tang
8. Mia Torchetti
9. Mary Lea Killian
10. Melinda Jenkins-Moore
11. Katie Mozingo
12. Yao Akpalu
13. Ria R. Ghai
14. Jessica R. Spengler
15. Casey Barton Behravesh
16. Rebecca S. B. Fischer
17. Gabriel L. Hamer

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Implications of the COVID-19 lockdown on dengue transmission in Malaysia

1. Song-Quan Ong
2. Hamdan Ahmad
3. Ahmad Mohiddin Mohd Ngesom

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Sexual dimorphism and plasticity in wing shape in three Diptera

1. Micael Reis
2. Natalia Siomava
3. Ernst A. Wimmer
4. Nico Posnien

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