id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-017785-zwnkrs23 Baker, Michelle L. Mammalia: Chiroptera: Immunology of Bats 2018-03-10 .txt text/plain 9426 450 46 The role of bats as natural reservoirs of a variety of high-profile viruses that are highly pathogenic in other susceptible species yet cause no clinical disease in bats has led to a resurgence of interest in their immune systems. RNAseq studies on tissues and cells from a variety of different species of bats have provided evidence that bats have nearly all of the major components of the immune system that are present in other mammals, including receptors and molecules associated with innate and adaptive immunity and microRNAs (Papenfuss et al. Responses to antigens such as ϕX174 bacteriophage and sheep red blood cells have demonstrated that the generation of neutralizing antibodies is delayed in the big brown bat, the pteropid bat, and the Indian flying fox (Pteropus giganteus) (Hatten et al. ./cache/cord-017785-zwnkrs23.txt ./txt/cord-017785-zwnkrs23.txt