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Megachiroptera
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Noun1.Megachiroptera - fruit batsMegachiroptera - fruit bats                          
suborder Megachiroptera
animal order - the order of animals
Chiroptera, order Chiroptera - an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats)
fruit bat, megabat - large Old World bat of warm and tropical regions that feeds on fruit
genus Pteropus, Pteropus - a genus of Megachiroptera
genus Nyctimene, Nyctimene - East Indian fruit bats
Cynopterus, genus Cynopterus - a genus of Megachiroptera
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LBV likely co-evolved with its natural megachiropteran host until a genetic stasis had been reached in which the virus-host relationship was in equilibrium.
Antibodies against Lagos bat virus in megachiroptera from West Africa by Hayman, David T.S.; Fooks, Anthony R.; Horton, Daniel; Suu-Ire, Richard; Breed, Andrew C.; Cunningha / Emerging Infectious Diseases
Also in the exhibit were 19 Egyptian fruit bats (Pteropodidae: Rousettus aegyptiacus), which is one of the few megachiropteran bat species that echolocates (peak frequency = 20-40 kHz [von Herbert 1985 as referenced in Holland et al.
Activity patterns in a captive colony of Jamaican fruit bats, ... by Tung, Jennifer J.; Francl, Karen E. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
Special mention should be made of three sets: MARSIPOBRANCHIATA BASIPARACHROMATIN (17), the longest known, MEGACHIROPTERAN CINEMATOGRAPHER (15) the longest best-mixed (one bigram [ME/EM] shared in reverse), and DOCUMENTARILY UNMALEDICTORY (13), the longest with no common bigram, forward or reversed.
Importunate permutation: aphoristical parochialist by Kidd, Stuart / Word Ways
 
 
 
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