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This report begins to address this situation.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Methods<\/jats:italic>: Bats were examined both in the wild and after exposure to various experimental conditions. The pineals were examined macroscopically as well as with light and electron microscopy. The pigment was identified as melanin by its color, the ultrastructure of its granules, and their reaction with hydrogen peroxide.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Results<\/jats:italic>: Gross observations showed the pineals to be variably pigmented, which were subjectively scored from unpigmented to heavily pigmented. Pineals from bats exposed to a continuous 24 h light regimen or those from a summer population contained very little, if any, externally visible melanin. Such pineals are considered unpigmented in this study. In contrast, pineals from 74% of 156 animals taken together, either subjected to constant darkness or hibernation (simulated or natural), exhibited very heavily pigmented pineals. The pigment in these cases even extended to the juxtapineal meningeal covering. The pineal was pigmented even in a newborn <jats:italic>Eptesicus<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p><jats:p><jats:italic>Conclusions<\/jats:italic>: The pineal pigmentation in the big brown bat appears to intensify with constant darkness and may vary seasonally. The observation of macroscopically pigmented pineals in some other bats (<jats:italic>Myotis lucifugus, Pipistrellus subfiavus<\/jats:italic>, and <jats:italic>Lasiurus borealis<\/jats:italic>) suggests that this phenomenon may be of taxonomic value for the family Vespertilionidae (Order Chiroptera). \u00a9 1994 Wiley\u2010Liss, Inc.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1002\/ar.1092400309","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2005,2,26]],"date-time":"2005-02-26T19:02:27Z","timestamp":1109444547000},"page":"367-376","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Observations on the pineal gland of the big brown bat, <i>Eptesicus fuscus<\/i>: Possible correlation of melanin intensification with constant darkness"],"prefix":"10.1002","volume":"240","author":[{"given":"Kunwar P.","family":"Bhatnagar","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Frederick K.","family":"Hilton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2005,1,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","first-page":"309","volume-title":"Hdb. 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