The Role of Molossidae and Vespertilionidae in Shaping the Diversity of Alphacoronaviruses in the Americas

The Role of Molossidae and Vespertilionidae in Shaping the Diversity of Alphacoronaviruses in the Americas

ABSTRACT Bats are reservoirs of diverse coronaviruses (CoVs), including progenitors of severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV) and SARS-CoV-2. In the Americas, there is a contrast between alphacoronaviruses (alphaCoVs) and betaCoVs: while cospeciation prevails in the latter, alphaCoV evolut...

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Main Authors: Diego A. Caraballo, María S. Sabio, Valeria C. Colombo, María Guadalupe Piccirilli, Lorena Vico, Stella Maris Hirmas Riade, Josefina Campos, Gustavo Martínez, Fernando Beltrán, Elsa Baumeister, Daniel M. Cisterna
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2022-12-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
Subjects:
virus
coronavirus
cross-species transmission
spillover
host shift
bats
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03143-22

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https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.03143-22

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