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https://palmoildetectives.com/2024/03/24/bougainville-monkey-faced-bat-pteralopex-anceps
Bougainville Monkey-faced Bat Pteralopex anceps
In the verdant, high-altitude forests of Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea, and Choiseul Island, Solomon Islands, lives an intriguing creature—the Bougainville Monkey-faced bat or, as some call…Palm Oil Detectives
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
#virus #virome #bats #coronavirus #virology #metagenomics
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…Nature