Author: Tan, Zhizhou; Gonzalez, Gabriel; Sheng, Jinliang; Wu, Jianmin; Zhang, Fuqiang; Xu, Lin; Zhang, Peisheng; Zhu, Aiwei; Qu, Yonggang; Tu, Changchun; Carr, Michael J; He, Biao
Title: Extensive genetic diversity of polyomaviruses in sympatric bat communities: host-switching versus co-evolution. Cord-id: l911s6d9 Document date: 2020_2_19
ID: l911s6d9
Snippet: Polyomaviruses (PyVs) are small DNA viruses carried by diverse vertebrates. The evolutionary relationships of viruses and hosts remain largely unclear due to very limited surveillance in sympatric communities. In order to investigate whether PyVs can transmit among different mammalian species and to identify host-switching events in the field we conducted a systematic study of a large collection of bats (n=1,083) from 29 sympatric communities across China which contained multiple species with fr
Document: Polyomaviruses (PyVs) are small DNA viruses carried by diverse vertebrates. The evolutionary relationships of viruses and hosts remain largely unclear due to very limited surveillance in sympatric communities. In order to investigate whether PyVs can transmit among different mammalian species and to identify host-switching events in the field we conducted a systematic study of a large collection of bats (n=1,083) from 29 sympatric communities across China which contained multiple species with frequent contact. PyVs were detected in 21 bat communities with 192 PyVs identified in 186 bats from 15 species within 6 families representing at least 28 newly-described PyVs. Surveillance results and phylogenetic analyses surprisingly revealed three inter-family PyV host-switching events in these sympatric bat communities: two distinct PyVs were identified in two bat species in restricted geographical locations, while another PyV clustered phylogenetically with PyVs carried by bats from a different host family. Virus-host relationships of all discovered PyVs were also evaluated and no additional host-switching events were found. PyVs were identified in different horseshoe bat species in sympatric communities without observation of host-switching events, showed high genomic identities, clustered with each other. This suggested that even for PyVs with high genomic identities in closely-related host species, the potential for host-switching is low. In summary, our findings revealed that PyV host-switching in sympatric bat communities can occur but is limited, and host-switching events of bat-borne PyVs are relatively rare on the predominantly evolutionary background of co-divergence with their hosts.ImportanceSince the discovery of murine polyomavirus in the 1950s, polyomaviruses (PyVs) have been considered highly host-restricted in mammals. Sympatric bat communities commonly contain several different bat species in an ecological niche facilitating viral transmission, and therefore represent a model to identify host-switching events of PyVs. In this study, we screened PyVs in a large number of bats in sympatric communities from diverse habitats across China. We provide evidence that cross-species bat-borne PyV transmission exists, though is limited and that host-switching events appear relatively rare during the evolutionary history of these viruses. PyVs with close genomic identities were also identified in different bat species without host-switching events. Based on these findings, we propose an evolutionary scheme for bat-borne PyVs in which limited host-switching events occur on the background of co-divergence and lineage duplication generating the viral genetic diversity in bats.
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