From Jing Wang et al. at Sun Yat-sen University, this is a new Nature Communications publication describing the virome of 149 bats collected in Yunan Provinde from 2015-2019. A metagenomic assembly produced contigs from 55 different mammal-associated viral species, including 5 similar to known human or livestock pathogens, including 2 Sarbecoviruses, with evidence of recombination.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39835-1

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Individual bat virome analysis reveals co-infection and spillover among bats and virus zoonotic potential - Nature Communications

Viral diversity and abundance in bats are incompletely understood. Here, analyzing individual bat viromes, the authors observe a high frequency of co-infection and spillover among the animals and identify viruses with the potential to infect humans o…

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