(Download) "Bat Guano is Useful for More Than Diet Studies (Report)" by Daniel J. Sparks, Dale W. Whitaker, John O., Jr. Oyler-McCance, Sara J. Judy # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Bat Guano is Useful for More Than Diet Studies (Report)
- Author : Daniel J. Sparks, Dale W. Whitaker, John O., Jr. Oyler-McCance, Sara J. Judy
- Release Date : January 31, 2010
- Genre: Engineering,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
Description
ABSTRACT. Researchers collect bat guano using a variety of techniques, and most samples are used for diet analysis. We provide recommendations for an easily-constructed guano collector that also samples a standard (1 [m.sup.2]) area. Recently, many conservationists have begun using fecal DNA in an effort to indentify the species of an unknown donor, or collect demographic data on rare or cryptic species. Most studies have targeted larger mammals such as carnivores that produce large scats: but more recently, researchers have begun to use bat guano to obtain DNA. This DNA can be analyzed using extraction techniques and a suite of highly polymorphic microsatellite loci to provide information about the identity of the species and of individual bats that are present. Other advances in analytical techniques suggest that future samples of bat guano can provide information about stress levels within a colony and even to obtain information about where prey insects were produced. Keywords: DNA, guano, Indiana bat, microsatellites, Myotis sodalis, roosts