Bat coronavirus phylogeography in the Western indian ocean
Scientific RepoRtS; 10 (6873), 2020
Bats provide key ecosystem services such as crop pest regulation, pollination, seed dispersal, and soil fertilization. Bats are also major hosts for biological agents responsible for zoonoses, such as coronaviruses (CoVs). The islands of the Western Indian Ocean are identified as a major biodiversity hot...
Mozambique, Prevalence, Indian Ocean Islands/epidemiology, Social Control, Formal, Coronavirus Infections/epidemiology, Coronavirus Infections/veterinary, Coronavirus Infections/virology, DNA, Viral/genetics, Ecosystem, Evolution, Molecular, Genetic Variation, Host Specificity, Phylogeny, Mass Screening, Phylogeography/methods, RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase, Alphacoronavirus/genetics, Betacoronavirus/genetics, Chiroptera/virology, RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase/genetics, Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction, Zoonoses/epidemiology, Zoonoses/virology