BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 51: NO. 1 SPRING 2010 BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 51: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2010 Table of Contents Activity of P-enolpyruvate Carboxykinase and Levels of Plasma Insulin in Common Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus Mariella B. Freitas, Isis C. Kettelhut, Maria A. Garofalo, Luiz Fabrizio Stoppiglia, Antônio C. Boschero, and Eliana C. Pinheiro . 1 Abstracts Presented at the XIth European Bat Research Symposium, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Compiled by Abigel Szodoray-Paradi . 7 List of Participants at the XIth European Bat Research Symposium Compiled by Abigel Szodoray-Paradi . 64 In Memoriam A Tribute to Sheila Stebbings — Conservationist Barry Collins . 71 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 75 Announcements and Future Meetings . 83 Advertisement . 84 VOLUME 51: NUMBER 2 SUMMER 2010 Table of Contents Longevity Record for the Big Brown Bat (Eptesicus fuscus) Susan M. Barnard . 85 Bat-related Abstracts Presented at the 20th Colloquium on the Conservation of Mammals in the Southeastern United States, Asheville, North Carolina Compiled by Timothy C. Carter . 87 Recent Literature Margaret Griffiths . 95 Book Review Bats in Captivity: Volume 2: Aspects of Rehabilitation Edited by Susan M. Barnard Reviewed by Robert E. Stebbings . 98 Announcements and Future Meetings . 99 i BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 51: NUMBER 3 FALL 2010 Table of Contents Herniated Urinary Bladder in a Male Little Brown Myotis, Myotis lucifugus John O. Whitaker, Jr., and Angela K. Chamberlain . 101 Abstracts Presented at the 14th Australasian Bat Society Conference, Darwin, Australia Compiled by Chris Pavey . 103 List of Participants at the 14th Australasian Bat Society Conference Compiled by Chris Pavey . 129 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 133 Announcements and Future Meetings . 140 VOLUME 51: NUMBER 4 WINTER 2010 Table of Contents Abstracts Presented at the 40th North American Symposium on Bat Research, Denver, Colorado Compiled by Gary Kwiecinski . 141 List of Participants at the 40th North American Symposium on Bat Research Compiled by Gary Kwiecinski . 192 Recent Literature Jacques Veilleux . 199 Book Review Bats of Missouri by Justin Boyles, John Timpone, and Lynn Robbins Richard Clawson . 207 News . 209 Announcements . 209 Future Meetings . 210 ii BAT RESEARCH NEWS VOLUME 51: NUMBER 1 SPRING 2010 Table of Contents Table of Contents . i Activity of P-enolpyruvate Carboxykinase and Levels of Plasma Insulin in Common Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus Mariella B. 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All material in this issue is protected by copyright and may not be reproduced, transmitted, posted on a Web site or a listserve, or disseminated in any form or by any means without prior written permission from the Publisher, Dr. Margaret A. Griffiths. ii Activity of P-enolpyruvate Carboxykinase and Levels of Plasma Insulin in Common Vampire Bats (Desmodus rotundus) Mariella B. Freitas1, Isis C. Kettelhut2, Maria A. Garofalo2, Luiz Fabrizio Stoppiglia3, Antônio C. Boschero3, and Eliana C. Pinheiro4 1Department of Animal Biology, Federal University of Viçosa, Viçosa, Brazil; 2Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo, Rebeirão Preto, Brazil; 3Department of Physiology, Institute of Biology, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil; and 4Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Introduction hormones, which influence transcription of the gene for PEPCK (Hagopian et al., 2003; Unlike most mammals, the common Hanson and Reshef, 2003). The most vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) shows a important hormone that inhibits expression of severe hypoglycemia following fasting this gene is insulin, whereas expression is (Freitas et al., 2003), culminating in death induced by glucagon during fasting, by after only 48–72 h (Breidenstein, 1982; glucocorticoids during periods of stress, and McNab, 1972). Vampire bats also have low by catecholamines during exercise (Barthel reserves of liver glycogen and fat (Freitas et and Schmoll, 2003). Because insulin has a al., 2003), suggesting small contributions of strong effect on activity of PEPCK and on both glycogenolysis and gluconeogenesis, body energy reserves, we determined which are metabolic pathways usually cytosolic and mitochondrial activity of activated by other mammals to elevate PEPCK in the liver of common vampire bats, circulating blood glucose when food is not as well as levels of insulin in the plasma, for available (Tirone and Brunicardi, 2001). both fed animals and those that were fasted Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase for 24 h. (PEPCK) plays an important role in control of gluconeogenesis (Barthel and Schmoll, 2003). Materials and Methods PEPCK catalyzes one of the rate-limiting steps of gluconeogenesis, the conversion of Adult male and non-pregnant female oxaloacetate to phosphoenolpyruvate, which common vampire bats weighing 22–37 g, leads to the final step of gluconeogenesis, the were captured from caves near Brasília, Brazil production of free glucose (Barthel and (15°30’S, 48°10’W). Prior to the experiments, Schmoll, 2003). Although this enzyme is bats were caged in pairs and maintained in the found in the liver of many vertebrates, its laboratory at room temperature. Bats were intracellular distribution varies among fed on defibrinated bovine blood for at least 4 species. In rodents, this enzyme is nights; during each night, the bats were predominantly cytoplasmic (Hakimi et al., offered 40 ml of blood, which exceeded the 2005), while in other vertebrates, including average daily consumption (13.7 ml) of quails, rabbits, cats, humans, and frugivorous captive vampires in a previous study bats, it is also present in the mitochondria (Breidenstein, 1982). Petri dishes containing (Croniger et al., 2002; Hakimi et al., 2005; blood were offered at 2000 hours and Pinheiro et al., 2006; Sartori et al., 2000). removed at 0730 hours the next morning. Activity of this enzyme is mediated by Water