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Bat trait, genetic and pathogen data from large-scale investigations of African fruit bats, Eidolon helvum.
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- What is stirring in the reservoir? Modelling mechanisms of henipavirus circulation in fruit bat hosts.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Support for viral persistence in bats from age-specific serology and models of maternal immunity.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Maternal antibody and the maintenance of a lyssavirus in populations of seasonally breeding African bats.PloS one · 2018Article
- Can survival analyses detect hunting pressure in a highly connected species? Lessons from straw-coloured fruit bats.Biological conservation · 2016Article
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Abstract
Bats, including African straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum), have been highlighted as reservoirs of many recently emerged zoonotic viruses. This common, widespread and ecologically important species was the focus of longitudinal and continent-wide studies of the epidemiological and ecology of Lagos bat virus, henipaviruses and Achimota viruses. Here we present a spatial, morphological, demographic, genetic and serological dataset encompassing 2827 bats from nine countries over an 8-year period. Genetic data comprises cytochrome b mitochondrial sequences (n=608) and microsatellite genotypes from 18 loci (n=544). Tooth-cementum analyses (n=316) allowed derivation of rare age-specific serologic data for a lyssavirus, a henipavirus and two rubulaviruses. This dataset contributes a substantial volume of data on the ecology of E. helvum and its viruses and will be valuable for a wide range of studies, including viral transmission dynamic modelling in age-structured populations, investigation of seasonal reproductive asynchrony in wide-ranging species, ecological niche modelling, inference of island colonisation history, exploration of relationships between island and body size, and various spatial analyses of demographic, morphometric or serological data.
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