Are Abnormally Large Eastern Bent-Wing Bats, Miniopterus fuliginosus, the Result of a Feature Shift or the Result of Hybridization?

During a study of morphological variations in bent-wing bats (Miniopterus), we found that specimens originating from the Cao Bang province of Vietnam, identified as M. fuliginosus, were closer in size to the larger species, M. magnater.

Paraphyly of the Pipistrelles (Pipistrellus; Vespertilionidae) is Confirmed by the Analysis of the Nuclear Gene Markers.

There are evidences that the genus Pipistrellus (true pipistrelles) in its current understanding may be paraphyletic. We have studied for the first time the phylogenetic relationships between the majority of supraspecific taxa of the subtribe Pipistrellina based on the analysis of the sequences of three nuclear genes (RAG2, APOB, and DMP1). Our data support the monophyly of the subtribe itself, but definitely show that the genus Pipistrellus in the modern sense is paraphyletic with respect to noctules, Nyctalus, and thick thumb pipistrelles, Glischropus (which both are morphologically distinct taxa).

[Optical coherence tomography angiography in the diagnosis of myopic choroidal neovascularization].

Unlabelled: Purpose - to perform a complex assessment of the retina and choroid in patients with pathological myopia (PM) complicated by subretinal neovascularization, and to determine the changes that govern the development of myopic subretinal neovascular membrane (SNM).

Material And Methods: The study examined 48 patients (40 females, 8 males) aged 18 to 54 years with pathological myopia complicated by SNM. All patients underwent standard ophthalmological examination including optical coherence tomography (OCT).

[Visualization of retinal blood flow disturbances in acute retinal ischemia syndrome].

Vascular disorders account for a significant proportion of acute loss of vision. In recent years, scientific and technical progress in ophthalmology has provided new opportunities in the study of vascular pathology, significantly expanding the understanding of their pathogenesis. The article presents a clinical case of a patient with acute retinal ischemia syndrome who had retinal blood flow disturbances studied using optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging.

Use of the Communication Checklist - Self Report (Cc-Sr) in Schizophrenia: Language Impairments Correlate with Poor Premorbid Social Adjustment.

Background: The present study reports preliminary results from the multicentre project on the approbation of the Russian language version of the "The Communication Checklist-Self Report" (RL-CC-SR) and its first use in schizophrenia (SZ), aiming to evaluate the contribution of language disturbances in the pathogenesis of this heterogeneous disorder.

Subjects And Methods: The study evaluated patients' clinical state with the Diagnostic Interview for Psychoses (DIP), and assessed language and communication disturbances (LCD) with the RL-CC-SR in all participants (213 healthy controls (HC), 83 SZ patients, 31 SZ first-degree relatives). Data from the current sample of SZ (n=50), and HC (n=213) was analysed to calculate the relationships between LCD, social and clinical variables using descriptive statistics methods, T-test and Pearson's correlations (SPSS-26, 2019).