Malus sieversii genome of the domestic apples is "Malus baccata", but there is no evidence for this in older apple cultivars. Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan, and formerly its capital, derives its name from the Kazakh word for "apple" (Alma), and is often translated as "full of apples" (the region surrounding Almaty is home to forests of "Malus sieversii"); "alma" is also "apple" in other Turkic languages, as well as in Hungarian. The Soviet-era name, Alma-Ata, is Kazakh for "Father of Apples". These and other "Malus" species have been used in some recent breeding programmes to develop apples suitable for growing
Bare-backed fruit bat Bare-backed fruit bat The bare-backed fruit bat ("Dobsonia moluccensis") is a fruit bat in the family Pteropodidae. It was described as a new species in 1830 by Jean René Constant Quoy and Joseph Paul Gaimard They placed it in the now-defunct bat genus "Hypoderma", with the scientific name "H. moluccensis". Its species name ""moluccensis"" means "belonging to the Moluccas," which is where the species is found. Its fur is brown and its feet have distinctive white claws. It is smaller than the New Guinea naked-backed fruit bat. Males weigh while females weigh . Its ears are pointed, and its second