SynthesisEcoHealth2009
Correlates of viral richness in bats (order Chiroptera).
Synthesis in EcoHealth, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 94 citations in OpenAlex.
- Virome Diversity in Three Bat Species in Different Environments in Southern Spain.Microorganisms · 2026Article
- The links between dietary diversity and RNA virus diversity harbored by the great evening bat (Ia io).Microbiome · 2024Article
- Host-Virus Cophylogenetic Trajectories: Investigating Molecular Relationships between Coronaviruses and Bat Hosts.Viruses · 2024Article
- Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Bat Hepatitis B Viruses in Bat Species Living in Gabon.Viruses · 2024Article
- Bat Ectoparasites (Acari, Diptera, Hemiptera, Siphonaptera) in the Grand Maghreb (Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia): A Literature Review and New Data.Acta parasitologica · 2024Review
- A species-level trait dataset of bats in Europe and beyond.Scientific data · 2023Article
- Trends in Bacterial Pathogens of Bats: Global Distribution and Knowledge Gaps.Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2023Review
- Serological evidence of a pararubulavirus and a betacoronavirus in the geographically isolated Christmas Island flying-fox (Pteropus natalis).Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2022Article
- Viral Metagenomic Data Analyses of Five New World Bat Species from Argentina: Identification of 35 Novel DNA Viruses.Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Selection and stability validation of reference gene candidates for transcriptional analysis in Rousettus aegyptiacus.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Diversity and Epidemiology of Bat Trypanosomes: A One Health Perspective.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Bats and viruses: a death-defying friendship.Virusdisease · 2021Review
- Host specificity ofInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2021Article
- SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: Not the First, Not the Last.Microorganisms · 2021Review
- Viral, host and environmental factors that favor anthropozoonotic spillover of coronaviruses: An opinionated review, focusing on SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2.The Science of the total environment · 2021Review
- COVID-19, other zoonotic diseases and wildlife conservation.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2020Article
- The influence of bat ecology on viral diversity and reservoir status.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Demographic and environmental drivers of metagenomic viral diversity in vampire bats.Molecular ecology · 2020Article
- Viral Diversity of Microbats within the South West Botanical Province of Western Australia.Viruses · 2019Article
- Genetic characterization of a novel picornavirus in Algerian bats: co-evolution analysis of bat-related picornaviruses.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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2 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
Historic and contemporary host ecology and evolutionary dynamics have profound impacts on viral diversity, virulence, and associated disease emergence. Bats have been recognized as reservoirs for several emerging viral pathogens, and are unique among mammals in their vagility, potential for long-distance dispersal, and often very large, colonial populations. We investigate the relative influences of host ecology and population genetic structure for predictions of viral richness in relevant reservoir species. We test the hypothesis that host geographic range area, distribution, population genetic structure, migratory behavior, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) threat status, body mass, and colony size, are associated with known viral richness in bats. We analyze host traits and viral richness in a generalized linear regression model framework, and include a correction for sampling effort and phylogeny. We find evidence that sampling effort, IUCN status, and population genetic structure correlate with observed viral species richness in bats, and that these associations are independent of phylogeny. This study is an important first step in understanding the mechanisms that promote viral richness in reservoir species, and may aid in predicting the emergence of viral zoonoses from bats.
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