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ArticleViruses2015

Alphacoronaviruses Detected in French Bats Are Phylogeographically Linked to Coronaviruses of European Bats.

Anne Goffard, Christine Demanche, Laurent Arthur, Claire Pinçon, Johan Michaux, Jean Dubuisson

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Article in Viruses, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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20citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

20 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Anne GoffardMolecular & Cellular Virology, University Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille, Bâtiment IBL. 1 rue du Pr. Calmette CS 50447, 59021 Lille Cedex, France. anne.goffard@univ-lille2.fr.
Christine DemancheBacterial Respiratory Infections: Pertussis and Tuberculosis, University Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille, F-59000 Lille, France. christine.demanche@univ-lille2.fr.
Laurent ArthurMuseum d'Histoire Naturelle de Bourges, Les Rives d'Auron, allée René Ménard, 18000 Bourges, France. laurent.arthur@ville-bourges.fr.
Claire PinçonUniversity Lille, CHU Lille, EA 2694-Santé publique: épidémiologie et qualité des soins, F-59000 Lille, France. claire.pincon@univ-lille2.fr.
Johan MichauxConservation Genetics Unit, Institute of Botany (B. 22), University Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium. johan.michaux@ulg.ac.be.
Jean DubuissonMolecular & Cellular Virology, University Lille, CNRS, Inserm, CHU Lille, Institut Pasteur de Lille, U1019-UMR 8204-CIIL-Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille, Bâtiment IBL. 1 rue du Pr. Calmette CS 50447, 59021 Lille Cedex, France. jean.dubuisson@ibl.cnrs.fr.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRCentre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement · FRUniversité de Lille · FR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bats are a reservoir for a diverse range of viruses, including coronaviruses (CoVs). To determine the presence of CoVs in French bats, fecal samples were collected between July and August of 2014 from four bat species in seven different locations around the city of Bourges in France. We present for the first time the presence of alpha-CoVs in French Pipistrellus pipistrellus bat species with an estimated prevalence of 4.2%. Based on the analysis of a fragment of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) gene, phylogenetic analyses show that alpha-CoVs sequences detected in French bats are closely related to other European bat alpha-CoVs. Phylogeographic analyses of RdRp sequences show that several CoVs strains circulate in European bats: (i) old strains detected that have probably diverged a long time ago and are detected in different bat subspecies; (ii) strains detected in Myotis and Pipistrellus bat species that have more recently diverged. Our findings support previous observations describing the complexity of the detected CoVs in bats worldwide.

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PhylogeographyAnimalsChiropteraCluster AnalysisCoronavirusCoronavirus InfectionsFecesFrancePrevalenceRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralSequence Analysis, DNASequence HomologyRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseRNA, ViralalphacoronavirusbatscoronavirusEuropemolecular characterizationphylogenetic analysisphylogeographic analysis

Identifiers

PMID26633467
PMCPMC4690861
OpenAlexW2186961191

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