A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special?
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A comparison of bats and rodents as reservoirs of zoonotic viruses: are bats special?
Bats are the natural reservoirs of a number of high-impact viral zoonoses. We present a quantitative analysis to address the hypothesis that bats are unique in their propensity to host zoonotic viruses based on a comparison with rodents, another important host order. We found that bats indeed host more zoonotic viruses per species than rodents, and we identified life-history and ecological fact...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2753