Bats: Important Reservoir Hosts of Emerging Viruses
Yale University · University of Colorado Health · +3 more institutions
Abstract
Bats (order Chiroptera, suborders Megachiroptera ["flying foxes"] and Microchiroptera) are abundant, diverse, and geographically widespread. These mammals provide us with resources, but their importance is minimized and many of their populations and species are at risk, even threatened or endangered. Some of their characteristics (food choices, colonial or solitary nature, population structure, ability to fly, seasonal migration and daily movement patterns, torpor and hibernation, life span, roosting behaviors, ability to echolocate, virus susceptibility) make them exquisitely suitable hosts of viruses and other disease agents. Bats of certain species are well recognized as being capable of transmitting rabies…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 9.93
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 144
Authors
5- CHCharles H. CalisherCorresponding
Yale University, University of Colorado Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University
- JEJames E. Childs
Yale University, University of Colorado Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University
- HFHume Field
Yale University, University of Colorado Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University
- KVKathryn V. Holmes
Yale University, University of Colorado Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University
- TSTony Schountz
Yale University, University of Colorado Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, University of Northern Colorado, Colorado State University
Topics & keywords
- Biology
- Torpor
- Endangered species
- Threatened species
- Population
- Ecology
- Zoology
- Rabies