Itandehui Hernandez-Aguilar

• Dra. en Ciencias en Ecología y Desarrollo Sustentable
• Investigadora Posdoctoral at CIIDIR Unidad Oaxaca, del Instituto Politécnico Nacional

Human-induced changes in landscape composition and configuration have a significant impact on species, including bats. Some bat species may be affected, while others can take advantage of the new available resources. In this study, we analyzed the response of the abundance, effective number of species, and dominance of bats to landscape composition...

Pigmentation anomalies and lesions are aspects of wild bat populations that have been rarely addressed and scarcely documented. We captured a total of 4,118 bats belonging to 30 species during 2020, 2021, and 2022 in the municipalities of Santa Maria Huatulco and San Miguel Lachiguiri, Oaxaca, southeastern Mexico. Of these, 9 individuals (0.21 %) s...

Este estudio tiene como objetivo determinar la infección natural por el coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 en murciélagos capturados en Oaxaca, México. Entre octubre de 2021 y febrero de 2022, se recolectaron muestras de hígado de 6 especies de murciélagos para detectar el ARN del SARS-CoV-2 mediante el ensayo cuantitativo de Reacción en Cadena de la Polimeras...

The COVID-19 pandemic, which occurred 4 years ago, left behind a renewed interest in the discussion of the role of mammals as carriers of pathogens with zoonotic potential. Previously, Han et al. (2016) stated that the mammalian orders with the highest number of species carrying this type of pathogens were Rodentia, Carnivora, and Chiroptera. It wa...

La alopecia es la pérdida parcial o total del pelo de un mamífero. Esta condición ha sido reportada en 38 especies de murciélagos de 6 familias. El objetivo de este reporte es documentar la presencia de alopecia en un individuo de Artibeus jamaicensis en el estado de Veracruz, sureste de México. El 25 de septiembre de 2022, durante una salida de ca...

Alopecia, or alopecia syndrome is the partial or complete loss of hair from an animal’s body. Following a previous report on bats with alopecia, in this work we complemented the list of bat species with alopecia available in the literature through 2023, adding phyllostomids (Artibeus planirostris, Carollia perspicillata), an emballonurid (Peroptery...

Background: The dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya arboviruses have spread in America in the past year, thus becoming global health issues. These viruses are maintained in nature in two transmission cycles: an urban cycle, transmitted from hematophagous mosquitoes to humans, and a wild cycle, recorded only in Africa and Asia, involving mosquitoes and no...

Después del surgimiento de la pandemia por COVID-19, se difundió información sobre otras enfermedades transmitidas al humano a través de animales (zoonosis). Pero ¿cuál es el panorama de estas enfermedades en el país? ¿México podría ser epicentro de un evento pandémico?

Abstract: The movement of individuals between roosts allows gene flow and influences the spatial distribution, dynamics, and genetic structure of populations. The objectives of this study were to describe the patterns of movement of the bats Mormoops megalophylla, Pteronotus fulvus, and Pteronotus mesoamericanus, between a mine (La Mina) and two ca...

ABSTRACT—Pigmentation abnormalities in fur or wings membranes have been reported in >100 bat species worldwide. In the case of the Mormoopidae family, abnormalities have been documented in Pteronotus mesoamericanus, Pteronotus quadridens, and Mormoops megalophylla. This work represents the first record of Pteronotus fulvus with a coloration pattern...

El virus del dengue (DENV) es transmitido por mosquitos, principalmente Aedes aegypti y A. albopictus y se mantiene en la naturaleza en dos ciclos de transmisión: el urbano y el selvático. Este último infecta principalmente a primates no humanos, pero se ha sugerido un posible papel secundario de otros mamíferos como hospederos, entre ellos los mur...

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is the focus of attention as it has caused more than three million human deaths globally. This and other coronaviruses, such as MERS-CoV, have been suggested to be related to coronaviruses that are hosted in bats. This work shows, through a bibliographic review, the frequency of detection of coronavirus in bats species of...

Introduction: Group or colony size is an important variable that is related to biological, ecological, and conservation aspects of bats. However, estimating the size of each colony or group in roosts used by more than one species is particularly difficult, especially when recapture rates are very low (< 10 %). Objective: Estimate the colony size o...

Dengue fever, caused by the dengue virus (DENV), is one of the most important reemerging viral diseases transmitted by arthropods worldwide. DENV is maintained in nature in two transmission cycles: urban and sylvatic. The latter has only been recorded in Africa and Asia and involves nonhuman primates as natural hosts, although it has been suggested...

Abstract. Introduction: Reproduction is a critical phase for most living organisms and in bats the reproduc- tive strategies exhibit considerable complexity and variability. Objective: To describe the reproductive patterns and population dynamics of seven bat species (Artibeus toltecus, Carollia perspicillata, Glossophaga soricina, Mormoops megalop...

In this paper, we analyze the richness, abundance, diversity and trophic guilds in a mine (La Mina) and two caves (El Apanguito and Cerro Huatulco) in the municipalities of Pluma Hidalgo and Santa María Huatulco, in the state of Oaxaca, México, a state with high species richness of bats nationwide. Fieldwork was conducted from July 2016 to June 201...

The pigmentation process can be affected throughout development and result in aberrant pigmentation. This can derive not only from genetic mutations, but also from other sources like infectious diseases that result in color patterns which are different from those characteristic of each species. In bats, most pigmentation abnormalities have been obs...