• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.110-113
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• 2012

ZnO crystals with a baseball bat shape were synthesized without any catalysts through a simple thermal oxidation of ZnS powder in alumina crucible under air atmosphere. SEM images demonstrated that the bat structure was composed of two pieces of ZnO crystals, i.e hexagonal-shaped rod and inverted cone-shaped rod. X-ray diffraction (XRD) pattern revealed that the ZnO crystals had wurtzite hexagonal structure. Energy dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectrum showed that the ZnO was of high purity. A strong green emission peak at 510 nm was observed in cathodoluminescece spectrum.

• Applied Microscopy
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.96-110
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• 1995

In order to clarify the process of spermiogenesis of the large-footed bat, Myotis macrodactylus, the testis and the epididymis obtained from mature male bats were examined by electron microscope. Based on the variety and diagnostic characters of organells, the spermiogenesis of the large-footed bat. Myotis macrodactylus could be divided into a total of nine phases. The results obtained from the present study are as follows. 1. The spermiogenesis of large-footed bat, Myotis macrodactylus was divided according to the level of fine structural differentiation into five phases, Golgi, cap, acrosome, maturation and spermiation phases, respectively; Golgi, cap, acrosome and spermiation phases were further subdivided into steps of early and late phase respectively and maturation phase has only one step. Hence, the spermiogenesis of the large-footed bat has been divided into a total of nine phases. 2. In the change of chromatin with nucleus, the chromatin granules are condensed in the whole part of nucleus at the late Golgi phase and completed at the maturation phase. 3. The sperm tail in the epididymis consists of nine outer doublets and two central singlet microtubles. Nos. 1, 5, 6, 9 of the outer dense fibers were larger than the others (2, 3, 4, 7, 8).

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• v.48 no.2
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• pp.120-127
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• 2024

Bats serve as vectors and natural reservoir hosts for various infectious viruses, bacteria, and fungi. These pathogens have also been detected in bat feces and can cause severe illnesses in hosts, other animals, and humans. Because pathogens can easily spread into the environment through bat feces, determining the bacterial communities in bat guano is crucial to mitigate potential disease transmission and outbreaks. This study primarily aimed to examine bacterial communities in the feces of insectivorous bats living in South Korea. Fecal samples were collected after capturing 84 individuals of four different bat species in two regions of South Korea, and the bacterial microbiota was assessed through next generation sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene. The results revealed that, with respect to the relative abundance at the phylum level, Myotis bombinus was dominated by Firmicutes (47.24%) and Proteobacteria (42.66%) whereas Miniopterus fuliginosus (82.78%), Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (63.46%), and Myotis macrodactylus (78.04%) were dominated by Proteobacteria. Alpha diversity analysis showed no difference in abundance between species and a significant difference (p < 0.05) between M. bombinus and M. fuliginosus. Beta-diversity analysis revealed that Clostridium, Asaia, and Enterobacteriaceae_g were clustered as major factors at the genus level using principal component analysis. Additionally, linear discriminant analysis effect size was conducted based on relative expression information to select bacterial markers for each bat species. Clostridium was relatively abundant in M. bombinus, whereas Mycoplasma_g10 was relatively abundant in R. ferrumequinum. Our results provide an overview of bat guano microbiota diversity and the significance of pathogenic taxa for humans and the environment, highlighting a better understanding of preventing emerging diseases. We anticipate that this research will yield bioinformatic data to advance our knowledge of overall microbial genetic diversity and clustering characteristics in insectivorous bat feces in South Korea.

• Animal cells and systems
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.313-316
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• 1997

Thomas'fruit-eating bat, Artibeus watssoni, is known to alter leaves of a wide variety of tropical plants to construct tent roosts. On Barro Colorado Island and Gigante Peninsula in the canal zone, Panama, A. watsoni is found to use the black palm, Astrocaryum standleyanum, as its tent plant. Bats cut the first five to ten pinnae from the proximal side of the terminal blade and chew additional four to nine pinnae without severing their central veins. The distance from the frond rachis to the cut decreases distally leaving an inverted V-shaped cut path. The distal portions of the bifurcated blade are then collapsed and folded to form the'bifid'tent with an inverted boat-shaped cavity underneath. All tents were in fronds of trunkless juvenile plants.

• Development and Reproduction
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.133-139
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• 1997

To study the function and structure of Golgi apparatus in the spermiogenesis of long-fingered bat (Miniopterus schreibersi fuliginosus), the testis obtained from adult bat was treated with the prolonged osmification or fixed with ferrocyanide reduced osmium. golgi apparatus was oval shape in early Golgi phase, and was composed of cortex and medullar enclosing acrosome in mid Golgi phase. The vesicles of crescent shape Golgi apparatus were closed or fused with small or large vesicles at the periphery of acrosome. Golgi apparatus moved behing the acrosome face in cap phase, but the Golgi apparatus was still active. According to this, Golgi apparatus appears to be involved in the formation of acrosome and sperm tail. Transfer of materials from Golgi to acrosme seems to be carried out not only by fusion of large vesicles with acrosomal vesicles but also by detachment of coated vesicle from various cisternae of Golgi fusing with acrosomal vesicle.

• Journal of Korean Ophthalmic Optics Society
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.187-191
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• 2013

Purpose: This study was done to understand the visual system of bat by analyzing the distribution of middle/long (ML) opsin cone photoreceptors in the retina of the greater horseshoe bat. Methods: Experiments have been performed by standard immunocytochemical techniques on retina of the greater horseshoe bat Rhinolophus ferrumequinum. Results: The estimated numbers of ML cones were $27,336{\pm}2,130$ cells and the mean density of them was $7,854{\pm}268cells/mm^2$ among the four retinas. S opsin was appeared a little immunoreactivity in the outer segments of outer nuclear layer of cones. Conclusions: From the well organized spatial distributions of ML opsin and the immunoreactivity of S opsin in the retinas, the greater horseshoe bats have the functions not only reacting in the photopic vision but being able to distinguish the colors.

• BMB Reports
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.159-166
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• 2003

Cytoplasmic $\alpha$-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from fruit-bat-breast muscle was purified by ion-exchange and affinity chromatography. The specific activity of the purified enzyme was approximately 120 units/mg of protein. The apparent molecular weight of the native enzyme, as determined by gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 was $59,500{\pm}650$ daltons; its subunit size was estimated to be $35,700{\pm}140$ by SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The true Michaelis-Menten constants for all substrates at pH 7.5 were $3.9{\pm}0.7\;mM$, $0.65{\pm}0.05\;mM$, $0.26{\pm}0.06\;mM$, and $0.005{\pm}0.0004\;mM$ for L-glycerol-3-phosphate, $NAD^+$, DHAP, and NADH, respectively. The true Michaelis-Menten constants at pH 10.0 were $2.30{\pm}0.21\;mM$ and $0.20{\pm}0.01\;mM$ for L-glycerol-3-phosphate and $NAD^+$, respectively. The turnover number, $k_{cat}$, of the forward reaction was $1.9{\pm}0.2{\times}10^4\;s^{-1}$. The treatment of the enzyme with 5,5'-dithiobis-2-nitrobenzoic acid (DTNB) under denaturing conditions indicated that there were a total of eight cysteine residues, while only two of these residues were reactive towards DTNB in the native enzyme. The overall results of the in vitro experiments suggest that $\alpha$-glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of the fruit bat preferentially catalyses the reduction of dihydroxyacetone phosphate to glycerol-3-phosphate.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.309-317
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• 1988

내륙산 관박쥐와 제주산 관박쥐간의 동-종 여부를 조사하기 위하여 경남과 제주에서 채집한 이들 관박쥐들을 핵형분석하였다. 핵형분석의 결과, 2종 모두 염색체수는 2n=58이었으며 FN도 62였다. 상염색체에서는 중형의 2쌍과 미세형 1쌍이 중부염색체(metacentrics)였고, 대형에서 소형까지는 25쌍이 단부염색체facrocentrics)이었다. 성염색체에서 X염색체는 대형의 차중부염색체(submetacentrics)였고, Y염색체는 소형의 단부염색체(acrocentrics)이었다. 그리고 이들 염색체들은 동원체 부근에 이질염색체을 가지는 특이한 1쌍의 단부염색체(acrocentrics)가 존재하고 있었다. in this study, We analysed the karyotypes of the inland bat(Rhinolox)thus femequinum hora) and the Cheju-Island bat(Rhinorophus ferrumequinum quelpartis(\ulcorner)) collected in Kyungnam and Cheju provinces to identify the homogeneous between them. The results are as follows. The diploid number of chromosomes of them are equally 58 and the fundamental number 62. In the autosomes, metacentrics consist of two pairs of the middle form and a pair of the micro-form. And acrocentrics have 25 pairs of large and small form. In sex-chromosomes, X-chromosome is a large submetacentrics and Y is a small acrocentrics. And, these chromosomes possess a pair of particular acrocentrics having heterochromatin around centromere in both the inland bat(Rhinolophus fenmequinum korai ) and Cheju-Island bat(Rhinolophus fewmequinum querporis (\ulcorner)).

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.10-19
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• 1995

동면동물인 한국관박쥐(Korean greater horseshoe bat)와 비롱면 롱물인 토끼의 근소포체가 지니는 생리 및 근조직의 형태적 특징을 비교해 보고자 본 실험을 수행하여 다음과 같은 결론을 내렸다 Caffeine과 Mgcl2는 농도별로 처리하고, p연와 온도에 변화를 주는 등 각각의 생리조건하에서 한국관박쥐와 토끼 대흉근 근소포체 마이크로솜의 C32' 흡수정도가 다르게 나타났으며, Ca2'ATPase 활성 역시 상이함을 보였는데. 이로 미루어 보아 in vivo 상태에서 두 동물의 근소포체가 지니는 생리적 특성에 차이가 있을 것으로 추측된다. 형태학적 측면에서도 근심유의 수기와 미토콘드리아의 크기에 있어서 뚜렷한 차이를 발견할 수 있었는데. 이는 두 동물의 대흉근이 수행하는 운동의 종류와 관련이 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.17 no.8 s.88
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• pp.1068-1074
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• 2007

Parvalbumin occurs in various types of cells in the retina. We previously reported parvalbumin distribution in the inner nuclear layer of bat retina. In the present study, we identified the parvalbumin-immunoreactive neurons in the ganglion cell layer of the retina of a bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum, and investigated the distribution pattern of the labeled neurons. Parvalbumin immunoreactivity was found in numerous cell bodies in the ganglion cell layer. Quantitative analysis showed that these cells had medium to large-sized somas. The soma diameter of the parvalbumin-immunoreactive cells in the ganglion cell layer ranged from 12.35 to 19.12 ${\mu}m$ (n=166). As the fibers in the nerve fiber layer were also stained, the majority of parvalbumin-immunoreactive cells in the ganglion cell layer should be medium to large-sized retinal ganglion cells. The mean nearest neighbor distance of the parvalbumin-immunoreactive cells in the ganglion cell layer of the bat retina ranged from 59.57 to 62.45 ${\mu}m$ and the average regularity index was 2.95 ${\pm}$ 0.3 (n=4). The present results demonstrate that parvalbu-min is expressed in medium to large-sized retinal ganglion cells in bat retina, and they have a well-or-ganized distributional pattern with regular mosaics. These results should be important as they are applicable to a better understanding of the unsolved issue of a bat vision. This data will help to provide fundamental knowledge for the better understanding of the unique behavioral aspects of bat flight maneuverability.