Author: Luis, Angela D.; O'Shea, Thomas J.; Hayman, David T. S.; Wood, James L. N.; Cunningham, Andrew A.; Gilbert, Amy T.; Mills, James N.; Webb, Colleen T.
Title: Network analysis of host–virus communities in bats and rodents reveals determinants of cross-species transmission Document date: 2015_8_24
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Snippet: Here, we examine the structure of host-virus communities in bats and rodents and how host traits, such as those above, correlate with propensity to host and transmit viruses. Rodents are a suitable group for comparison because they also host many important zoonotic viruses and share many of the characteristics hypothesised to make bats suitable as viral reservoirs. For example, rodents are also evolutionarily ancient; they are older than bats and.....
Document: Here, we examine the structure of host-virus communities in bats and rodents and how host traits, such as those above, correlate with propensity to host and transmit viruses. Rodents are a suitable group for comparison because they also host many important zoonotic viruses and share many of the characteristics hypothesised to make bats suitable as viral reservoirs. For example, rodents are also evolutionarily ancient; they are older than bats and more closely related to humans (dos Reis et al. 2012) . Rodents are the most diverse mammalian order with approximately twice the number of rodent species as bat species, many of which express torpor, and display a wide range of life history traits, including some long-lived species.
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