How Vampire bats survive only on blood. What the microbiome and genome sequence of this flying mammal tell us.

March 01, 2018

For the study, which was published Monday in Nature Ecology and Evolution, Dr. Mendoza and colleagues compared their vampire bat genome and microbiome with those of three other bat species: a bat that eats fruit, one that eat insects and one that eats mice, lizards, and other small animals.

Source: New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/science/vampire-bats-blood.html