Nia Toshkova [publications]

Zhelyazkova, V., Tičar, J., Deleva, S., Ivanov, A., Toshkova, N., Puechmaille, S., 2025. Cavers’ knowledge of biosecurity and its influence on the prevention of white-nose disease. — Subterranean Biology, 52: 45—68.

Toshkova, N., Zhelayzkova, V., Koseva, K., Dimitrova, K., Elshaer, F., Lacombe, R. V., …, Dimitrov, J. D., 2025. An integrative approach for profiling antibody responses in bats to human pathogens. — EMI: Animal & Environment: 1—25.

Toshkova, N., Zhelayzkova, V., Reyes-Ruiz, A., Haerens, E., de Castro Deus, M., Lacombe, R. V., …, Dimitrov, J. D., 2024. Temperature sensitivity of bat antibodies links metabolic state of bats with antigen-recognition diversity. — Nature Communications, 15 (1): 5878.

Kolev, M., Acosta-Pankov, I., Toshkova, N., Deleva, S., 2024. Acoustic study of urban bat diversity in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. — Historia naturalis bulgarica, 46 (10): 273—284. doi:10.48027/hnb.46.103

Toshkova, N., Zlatkov, B., Fakirova, A., Zhelyazkova, V., Simov, N., 2022. First record of Psorergatoides Fain, 1959 (Acari, Cheyletoidea, Psorergatidae) for the Balkan Peninsula with description of the cutaneous lesions on the wing membrane of its hosts Myotis myotis (Borkhausen, 1797) and Myotis blythii (Tomes, 1857)(Chiroptera, Vespertilionidae). — Biodiversity Data Journal, 10: e89514.

Toshkova, N, Zhelyazkova, V, Justesen, S, Dimitrov, J., 2022. Conservative pattern of interaction of bat and human IgG antibodies with FcRn. — Developmental & Comparative Immunology, 139: 104579.

Zhelyazkova, V., Hubancheva, A., Radoslavov, G., Toshkova, N., Puechmaille, S. J., 2020. Did you wash your caving suit? Cavers’ role in the potential spread of Pseudogymnoascus destructans, the causative agent of White-Nose Disease. — International Journal of Speleology, 49 (2): 149—159.

Franziska Günter, F., Beaulieu, M., Freiberg, K. F., Welzel, I., Toshkova, N., Žagar, A., Simčič, T., Fischer, K., 2020. Genotype-environment interactions rule the response of a widespread butterfly to temperature variation. — Journal of Evolutionary Biology. doi:10.1111/JEB.13623

Zhelyazkova, V., Toshkova, N., Dool, S., Bonaccorso, F., Pinzari, C., Montoya-Aiona, K., Puechmaille, S., 2019. Screening and biosecurity for White-nose fungus (Pseudogymnoascus destructans) in Hawaii. — Pacific Science, 73 (3): 357—365. doi:10.2984/73.3.4

Zhelyazkova, V., Toshkova, N., Goranov, S., 2016. Bats and Caves. — In: Speleological Studies of Caves in Godech Municipality (Part 1), Association of Speleoclubs in Sofia, Sofia, 51—62. [PDF]

Toshkova, N., Zhelyazkova, V., 2016. Expedition Hawaii. — BBC Knowledge Bulgaria, 72.

Toshkova, N., Zhelyazkova, V., 2016. Cave fungi. — In: Speleological Studies of Caves in Godech Municipality. Part 1. Sofia

Toshkova, N. L., Zhelyazkova, V. L., Puechmaille, S., Uzunov, B. A., Stoyneva-Gärtner, M. P., 2016. Review of the current status and future perspectives on Pseudogymnoascus destructans studies with reference to the species findings in Bulgaria. — Ann. Univ. Sof. 100 (2).

Petrov, B., Alexandrova, I., Karadakov, V., Georgieva, T., Toshkova, N., Zhelyazkova, V., 2014. Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) in Ponor Special Protection Area (Natura 2000), Western Bulgaria: Species Diversity and Distribution. — Acta zoologica bulgarica, 65 (Suppl. 5): 117—128.

Zhelyazkova, V., Toshkova, N., 2011. A Story about a Museum and Something More... — Ecology, Biology and Biotechnology, 6/2011: 72—78.