ArticleCommunications biology2025
Viral epidemic potential is not uniformly distributed across the bat phylogeny.
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- Applying one health approaches to addressing disease risks in wildlife trade: Insights from a special issue.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Article
- Adapting flow cytometry for studying immune cell seasonality in wild migratory bats.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Virus-host associations of bat coronaviruses along a land-use gradient in the Yucatán Peninsula, México.Virus evolution · 2026Article
- Bat Dicer antiviral role and subcellular localization differ upon alphavirus infection in two distinct species.PLoS pathogens · 2025Article
- Diverse hosts, diverse immune systems: Evolutionary variation in bat immunology.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
Characterizing host-virus associations is critical due to the rising frequency of emerging infectious diseases originating from wildlife. Past analyses have evaluated zoonotic risk as binary, but virulence, transmissibility, and death burden can vary dramatically. Recent work suggests bats harbor more viruses with high virulence in humans than other taxa. However, it remains unknown whether all bats harbor viruses of equal viral epidemic potential. We used phylogenetic factorization to flexibly identify clades of mammals (at any taxonomic level) associated with low or high viral epidemic potential. We found that virulence, transmissibility, and death burden only cluster within specific bat clades, often composed largely of cosmopolitan families. Mapping the geographic distributions of these bat clades with anthropogenic footprint data suggests high viral epidemic potential in coastal South America, Southeast Asia, and equatorial Africa. Our results deepen understanding of the host-virus network and identify clades to prioritize for viral surveillance, risk mitigation, and future studies characterizing mechanisms of viral tolerance.
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