Sándor, Attila D. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8852-8341
Corduneanu, Alexandra
Péter, Áron
Mihalca, Andrei Daniel
Barti, Levente
Csősz, István
Szőke, Krisztina
Hornok, Sándor
Funding for this research was provided by:
Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Bolyai János Scholarship)
Article History
Received: 16 September 2019
Accepted: 17 December 2019
First Online: 27 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Permission for bat capture was provided by the Underground Heritage Commission (Romania) and the Bulgarian Ministry of Environment and Water (permit no. 718/24.08.2017). Bat banding license numbers are 305/2015, 46/2016 and 24/2017. Bats were handled according to the current law of animal welfare regulation (Law 206/2004), and the Research Bioethics Commission of USAMV CN approved the used methodology of bat handling. Permission from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) was not necessary, because bats were released in the field after tick removal (none taken to participating institutes). No live bat was harmed for this study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.