The emergence of COVID-19 and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has prioritized
understanding bats' viral tolerance. Myotis bats are exceptionally species rich and have …

Bats carry viruses that can cause severe disease in other mammals. Asymptomatic
infections in bats suggest limited tissue-damaging inflammation and immunopathology. To …

Bats are the only mammals capable of sustained flight and are notorious reservoir hosts for
some of the world's most highly pathogenic viruses, including Nipah, Hendra, Ebola, and …

Understanding the immunogenetic basis of coronavirus (CoV) susceptibility in major
pathogen reservoirs, such as bats, is central to inferring their zoonotic potential. Members of …

The emergence of SARS-CoV in 2002 and SARS-CoV-2 in 2019 has led to increased
sampling of related sarbecoviruses circulating primarily in horseshoe bats. These viruses …

Bats are among the most diverse mammalian species, representing over 20% of mammalian
diversity. The past two decades have witnessed a disproportionate spillover of viruses from …

The advent of next generation sequencing technologies (NGS) has greatly accelerated our
understanding of critical aspects of organismal biology from non-model organisms. Bats …

RNA viruses are proficient at switching to novel host species due to their fast mutation rates.
Implicit in this assumption is the need to evolve adaptations in the new host species to …

Public health emergencies like SARS, MERS, and COVID-19 have prioritized surveillance of
zoonotic coronaviruses, resulting in extensive genomic characterization of coronavirus …

Many viruses that cause serious diseases in humans and animals, including the
betacoronaviruses (beta-CoVs), such as SARS-CoV, MERS-CoV, and the recently identified …