Coronavirus sampling and surveillance in bats from 1996–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis

LE Cohen, AC Fagre, B Chen, CJ Carlson… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2 highlights a need for evidence-based strategies to monitor
bat viruses. We performed a systematic review of coronavirus sampling (testing for RNA …

[HTML][HTML] Optimising predictive models to prioritise viral discovery in zoonotic reservoirs

DJ Becker, GF Albery, AR Sjodin, T Poisot… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Despite the global investment in One Health disease surveillance, it remains difficult and
costly to identify and monitor the wildlife reservoirs of novel zoonotic viruses. Statistical …

Antiviral responses in a Jamaican fruit bat intestinal organoid model of SARS-CoV-2 infection

M Hashimi, TA Sebrell, JF Hedges, D Snyder… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Bats are natural reservoirs for several zoonotic viruses, potentially due to an enhanced
capacity to control viral infection. However, the mechanisms of antiviral responses in bats …

Robust evidence for bats as reservoir hosts is lacking in most African virus studies: a review and call to optimize sampling and conserve bats

N Weber, M Nagy, W Markotter, J Schaer… - Biology …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Africa experiences frequent emerging disease outbreaks among humans, with bats often
proposed as zoonotic pathogen hosts. We comprehensively reviewed virus–bat findings …

Worldwide occurrence of haemoplasmas in wildlife: Insights into the patterns of infection, transmission, pathology and zoonotic potential

J Millán, S Di Cataldo, DV Volokhov… - Transboundary and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Haemotropic mycoplasmas (haemoplasmas) have increasingly attracted the attention of
wildlife disease researchers due to a combination of wide host range, high prevalence and …

Virus isolation data improve host predictions for New World rodent orthohantaviruses

N Mull, CJ Carlson, KM Forbes… - Journal of Animal …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying reservoir host species is crucial for understanding the ecology of multi‐host
pathogens and predicting risks of pathogen spillover from wildlife to people. Predictive …

From protein to pandemic: the transdisciplinary approach needed to prevent spillover and the next pandemic

RK Plowright, PJ Hudson - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Pandemics are a consequence of a series of processes that span scales from viral biology at
10− 9 m to global transmission at 106 m. The pathogen passes from one host species to …

Taxonomic resolution affects host− parasite association model performance

TA Dallas, DJ Becker - Parasitology, 2021 - cambridge.org
Identifying the factors that structure host–parasite interactions is fundamental to understand
the drivers of species distributions and to predict novel cross-species transmission events …

Sampling strategies and pre-pandemic surveillance gaps for bat coronaviruses

LE Cohen, AC Fagre, B Chen, CJ Carlson, DJ Becker - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
The emergence of SARS-CoV-2, and the challenge of pinpointing its ecological and
evolutionary context, has highlighted the importance of evidence-based strategies for …

Ecological and evolutionary characteristics of anthropogenic roosting ability in bats of the world

BA Betke, NL Gottdenker, LA Meyers, DJ Becker - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
Although the global conversion of wildlife habitat to built environments often has negative
impacts on biodiversity, some wildlife species have the ability to cope by living in human …