Emma C. Teeling

This study identifies pest species consumed by four Irish bat species in pastureland ecosystems, showing their role in pest regulation and potential for reducing pesticide use.

The paper examines how early-life environmental conditions and maternal age affect telomere length in two bat species and finds no link between early telomere length and short-term survival.

This study shows that Molossus molossus bats live longer than previously thought and exhibit minimal telomere shortening with age, challenging assumptions about bat ageing.

The paper integrates ecological data and mechanistic modeling to show that mating behavior and maternal immunity drive EBLV-2 dynamics in bats, with limited population impact.

This study uses metabarcoding to analyze bat diets in Irish pasturelands, showing differences in diet breadth and prey preferences between two bat species across time and land cover.

This study shows that bat fibroblasts require fewer oncogenic hits for malignant transformation compared to other long-lived mammals, suggesting reliance on non-cell autonomous tumor suppression mechanisms.

A 240-species placental mammal alignment resolves constraint to single bases, estimating at least 10.7% of the human genome is constrained, with 48.5% of constrained bases unannotated.

The paper identifies bats as a hotspot for horizontal transfer of DNA transposons, finding over 200 putative elements and shared transposons across mammals and reptiles.

The paper generates bat induced pluripotent stem cells and finds they contain endogenous viral sequences, suggesting a deep entanglement between bats and viruses.

This study uses DNA methylation profiles from bats to show that age and longevity are linked to specific methylation patterns, with longevity associated with immune and cancer-related genes.

The paper predicts the broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 by analyzing ACE2 conservation across vertebrates and identifying high-risk species.

The paper generates six reference-quality bat genomes, identifies genomic adaptations related to echolocation, immunity, and viral tolerance, and reveals regulatory elements contributing to bat traits.

The paper analyzes mitochondrial heteroplasmy in aging bats to test the Free Radical Theory of Ageing, finding age-related increases but dynamic patterns inconsistent with the theory.