Seidlova, Veronika
Pikula, Jiri
Kolarik, Miroslav
Nováková, Alena
Cmokova, Adela
Ghazaryan, Astghik
Nemcova, Monika
Bednarikova, Sarka
Patra, Sneha
Kokurewicz, Tomasz
Piacek, Vladimir
Zukal, Jan
Article History
Received: 7 March 2022
Accepted: 17 October 2022
First Online: 10 February 2023
Declarations
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: All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. Team members were authorised to handle wild bats according to the Czech Certificate of Competency (No. CZ01341; §17, Act No. 246/1992 Coll.). Experimental procedures were approved by the Ethical Committee of the Czech Academy of Sciences (Document No. 169/2011). In the Czech Republic, capture of bats for sample collection complied with Czech Law No. 114/1992 on Nature and Landscape Protection and was based on permits issued by the Agency for Nature Conservation and Landscape Protection of the Czech Republic (01662/MK/2012S/00775/MK/2012, 866/JS/2012 and 00356/KK/2008/AOPK). The II Local Ethical Commission in Wrocław approved sampling at the “Nietoperek” Natura 2000 site in Poland (No. 45/2015) based on the Polish Certificate of Competency in Experimental Procedures on Animals issued to TK (Polish Laboratory Animal Science Association, PolLASA, Certificate No. 2413/2015). Sampling in Armenia and Poland was approved by the Ministry of Nature Protection of the Republic of Armenia (No. 4/22.1/40163) and the Regional Directorate for Environmental Protection in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland (No. WPN-I-6205.10.2015.AI).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.