Here we propose to post our web page updates and provide information on events happening in Russian bat research not directly connected with this site (conferences, symposia, new publications etc.), which may be of interest to our visitors.

This page consists of the following topics: MAIN NEWS, NEW PUBLIC EVENTS (Conferences etc.), BAT RESEARCH NEWS, information on NEW PUBLICATIONS,
and also...

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NEWS OF THIS WEB SITE

14.03.23 — 25th issue of Plecotus et al. за 2022 is now available on e-library.
01.03.23 — The issue of Plecotus et al. number 25 (2022) has beeb published. Electronic copies of articles are available on the site.
04.04.22 — The issue of Plecotus et al. number 24 (2021) has beeb published. Electronic copies of articles are available on the site.
25.03.21 — The issue of Plecotus et al. number 23 (2020) has beeb published. Electronic copies of articles are available on the site.
07.03.18 — Dear colleagues, 20th volume of the Russian chiropterological journal, Plecotus et al., is published.
24.11.17 — Colleagues from the Moscow Zoo informed us about official establishment of the Bat reabilitation center, primarily working on bats foung in buildings in Moscow and adjacent areas.
11.07.17 — Article by Ksenia Kravchenko et al. about year-long monitoring of bats on urban territory (in Kharkiv as a model) was added to a "Library". Also, some updates are made in the taxonomic list of the Vietnamese bats.
02.03.17 — The issue of Plecotus et al. number 19 (2016) is now published. Electronis forms of articles are available on the site.
11.02.16 — Despite low activity in its English part, RBRG web-site still active and regularly updating. Unfortunately, we have not enough resourses to represent all our activity in English. Excuse us for that!
On February 1-5, 2016, Conference "Theriofauna of Russia and adjacent territories" (X Congress of the Theriological Society of RAS) took place on the Biological faculty of Moscow University. 21 communication concerning bat natural history were submitted.
03.04.14 — All articles from the issue 15-16 of Plecotus et al. are now available in pdf. Also two articles from the issue 11-12 (by Vasenkov and Sidorchuk about bats in Darvinovskiy Reserve and by Albov et al. about bats of Prioksko-Terrasny Reserve), which were absent on website for the technical reasons, are now available in pdf.

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PUBLIC EVENTS

On November, 26-28, 2024 The Fifth Southeast Asian Bat Conference (5th SEABCO) was held in the Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The official website of the conference is here.

On September 24-26, 2024, the conference "Theriofauna of Belarus and Adjacent Regions" was held in Minsk (Belarus), dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the birth of Professor P.G. Kozlo. The conference presented an unexpectedly large number of reports on bats, their distribution, taxonomy, ecology and parasites.

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NEW PUBLICATIONS

New book is published:


Вышла из печати книга:
Tiunov M.P., Kruskop S.V., Orlova M.V. 2021. Bats of the Russian Far East and their ectoparasites. Moscow, "Pero". 191 p. [in Russian]

SCIENTIFIC NEWS

A.S. Speranskaya et al. obtained a complete sequence of a new species of mastadenovirus from the feaces of the common noctule, Nyctalus noctula, from the European part of Russia. The new virus is not similar to the mastadenovirus type B common among European bats; its related lineage has so far been isolated only from vespertilionids of Australia (Speranskaya et al., 2024; Viruses, 16(8); DOI: 10.3390/v16081207).

D.G. Smirnov and A.V. Zabashta examined the features of the winter distribution of the common noctule, Nyctalus noctula, and the factors that determine it. It is proposed to divide the winter range of the noctule into a main zone, where wintering is massive and possible in natural roosts, and a "risk zone", where a small part of the population can winter only thanks to anthropogenic roosts (urban buildings) (Smirnov et al., 2023; Russ. J. Biological Invasions, 2023(3); DOI: 10.35885/1996-1499-16-3-168-183).

S.S. Zhukova et al. obtained the first complete mitochondrial genome of the Indochinese thick-thumb pipistrelle, Glischropus bucephalus. Phylogenetic analysis using complete mitogenomes once again confirms the paraphyly of the genus Pipistrellus in its modern understanding (Zhukova et al., 2023; Diversity, 15(1085); DOI: 10.3390/d15101085)

A.P. Yuzefovich with co-authors published an article about diversity of the Hipposideros larvatus species complex across mainland South-East Asia, analyzed on the basis of molecular (two mitochondrial and seven nuclear markers) and morphometric data. Presence of at least four species-level lineages were shown (Yuzefovich et al., 2022; Zootaxa, 5200(1))

M.P. Tiunov et al. describe a first record of the Anderson's serotine (Eptesicus pachyomus) in the south of Primoriye, adding a new bat species to the Russian fauna (Tiunov et al., 2022; Zoologicheskiy J., 101(12))