id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-256452-77xij0fc Allen, Louise C. Roosting ecology and variation in adaptive and innate immune system function in the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) 2008-11-11 .txt text/plain 5436 268 49 title: Roosting ecology and variation in adaptive and innate immune system function in the Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) We examined aspects of both innate and adaptive immune response in adult female Brazilian free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) at four maternity roosts (two natural caves and two human-made bridges) in south-central Texas. The Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis), for example, roosts in some of the largest aggregations of mammals on earth, with several thousand to several million individual bats estimated to form maternity colonies in caves and under highway bridges (Davis et al. Determining the ecological factors that predict variation in the ability of individual Brazilian free-tailed bats to exhibit functional immunological responses is important to understand disease dynamics and population health in this and other species of colonial animals. ./cache/cord-256452-77xij0fc.txt ./txt/cord-256452-77xij0fc.txt