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A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special?

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Luis, Angela D., Hayman, David T. S., O'Shea, Thomas J., Cryan, Paul M., Gilbert, Amy T., Pulliam, Juliet R. C., Mills, James N., Timonin, Mary E., Willis, Craig K. R., Cunningham, Andrew A., Fooks, Anthony R., Rupprecht, Charles E., Wood, James L. N., Webb, Colleen T.·2013·Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
DOI 10.1098/rspb.2012.2753
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Bats are the natural reservoirs of a number of high-impact viral zoonoses. We present a quantitative analysis to address the hypothesis that bats are unique in their propensity to host zoonotic viruses based on a comparison with rodents, another important host order. We found that bats indeed host more zoonotic viruses per species than rodents, and we identified life-history and ecological factors that promote zoonotic viral richness. More zoonotic viruses are hosted by species whose distributions overlap with a greater number of other species in the same taxonomic order (sympatry). Specifically in bats, there was evidence for increased zoonotic viral richness in species with smaller litters (one young), greater longevity and more litters per year. Furthermore, our results point to a new hypothesis to explain in part why bats host more zoonotic viruses per species: the stronger effect of sympatry in bats and more viruses shared between bat species suggests that interspecific transmission is more prevalent among bats than among rodents. Although bats host more zoonotic viruses per species, the total number of zoonotic viruses identified in bats (61) was lower than in rodents (68), a result of there being approximately twice the number of rodent species as bat species. Therefore, rodents should still be a serious concern as reservoirs of emerging viruses. These findings shed light on disease emergence and perpetuation mechanisms and may help lead to a predictive framework for identifying future emerging infectious virus reservoirs.

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Authors
Luis, A. D., Hayman, D. T. S., O'Shea, T. J., Cryan, P. M., Gilbert, A. T., Pulliam, J. R. C., Mills, J. N., Timonin, M. E., Willis, C. K. R., Cunningham, A. A., Fooks, A. R., Rupprecht, C. E., Wood, J. L. N., & Webb, C. T.
Venue
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Publisher
The Royal Society
Published
2013-04-07
Volume
280
Issue
1756
Pages
20122753-20122753
ISSN
  • 0080-4649 (ISSN-L)
  • 0962-8452
  • 1471-2954
DOI
10.1098/rspb.2012.2753
OpenAlex
W2115230740
Cited by
709
References
89
FWCI
52.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
green
Licence
royalsociety.org/journals/ethics-policies/data-sharing-mining/ (tdm)

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Luis, A. D., Hayman, D. T. S., O'Shea, T. J., Cryan, P. M., Gilbert, A. T., Pulliam, J. R. C., Mills, J. N., Timonin, M. E., Willis, C. K. R., Cunningham, A. A., Fooks, A. R., Rupprecht, C. E., Wood, J. L. N., & Webb, C. T. (2013). A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special? Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.2753

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