Wound healing in wing membranes of the Egyptian fruit bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) and big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus)

Bat flight membranes are critical for locomotion, foraging, and physiological homeostasis. Wild bats frequently injure their flight membranes during interactions with the environment and conspecifics or from disease. Researchers biopsy bat wing membranes to mark individuals or collect tissue for taxonomic and molecular studies. Because there are differences in the embryological development of different wing membrane regions, we evaluated …