Bats and zoonotic viruses: can we confidently link bats with emerging deadly viruses?

Reservoir Host Immune Responses to Emerging Zoonotic Viruses

(2015) Judith N. Mandl et al.   CELL

Nonecholocating Fruit Bats Produce Biosonar Clicks with Their Wings

(2014) Arjan Boonman et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Investigating the zoonotic origin of the West African Ebola epidemic

(2014) A. Mari Saez et al.   EMBO Molecular Medicine

Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 4a Protein Is a Double-Stranded RNA-Binding Protein That Suppresses PACT-Induced Activation of RIG-I and MDA5 in the Innate Antiviral Response

(2014) K.-L. Siu et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Emergence of Zaire Ebola Virus Disease in Guinea

(2014) Sylvain Baize et al.   NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE

Ecological dynamics of emerging bat virus spillover

(2014) R. K. Plowright et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomic surveillance elucidates Ebola virus origin and transmission during the 2014 outbreak

(2014) S. K. Gire et al.   SCIENCE

Filoviruses in Bats: Current Knowledge and Future Directions

(2014) Kevin Olival et al.   Viruses-Basel

Viral antibody dynamics in a chiropteran host

(2013) Kate S. Baker et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Duration of Maternal Antibodies against Canine Distemper Virus and Hendra Virus in Pteropid Bats

(2013) Jonathan H. Epstein et al.   PLoS One

Resolving the roles of immunity, pathogenesis, and immigration for rabies persistence in vampire bats

(2013) J. C. Blackwood et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Placental Mammal Ancestor and the Post-K-Pg Radiation of Placentals

(2013) M. A. O'Leary et al.   SCIENCE

Link to MERS Virus Underscores Bats' Puzzling Threat

(2013) K. Kupferschmidt   SCIENCE

Genome analysis reveals insights into physiology and longevity of the Brandt’s bat Myotis brandtii

(2013) Inge Seim et al.   Nature Communications

Bats and Viruses: Friend or Foe?

(2013) James W. Wynne et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The immune gene repertoire of an important viral reservoir, the Australian black flying fox

(2012) Anthony T Papenfuss et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Evidence of bat origin for Menangle virus, a zoonotic paramyxovirus first isolated from diseased pigs

(2012) J. A. Barr et al.   JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY

A Novel Bat Herpesvirus Encodes Homologues of Major Histocompatibility Complex Classes I and II, C-Type Lectin, and a Unique Family of Immune-Related Genes

(2012) H. Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding disease emergence: The past, present, and future drivers of Nipah virus emergence

(2012) P. Daszak et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative Analysis of Bat Genomes Provides Insight into the Evolution of Flight and Immunity

(2012) G. Zhang et al.   SCIENCE

Antiviral Immune Responses of Bats: A Review

(2012) M. L. Baker et al.   Zoonoses and Public Health

The other rabies viruses: The emergence and importance of lyssaviruses from bats and other vertebrates

(2012) Charles H. Calisher et al.   Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Pathology in euthermic bats with white nose syndrome suggests a natural manifestation of immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

(2012) Carol U. Meteyer et al.   Virulence

Cedar Virus: A Novel Henipavirus Isolated from Australian Bats

(2012) Glenn A. Marsh et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Ecosystem services provided by bats

(2011) Thomas H. Kunz et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Alphacoronaviruses in New World Bats: Prevalence, Persistence, Phylogeny, and Potential for Interaction with Humans

(2011) Christina Osborne et al.   PLoS One

Diseases and Causes of Death in European Bats: Dynamics in Disease Susceptibility and Infection Rates

(2011) Kristin Mühldorfer et al.   PLoS One

Floral Acoustics: Conspicuous Echoes of a Dish-Shaped Leaf Attract Bat Pollinators

(2011) R. Simon et al.   SCIENCE

Naturally Acquired Rabies Virus Infections in Wild-Caught Bats

(2011) April Davis et al.   VECTOR-BORNE AND ZOONOTIC DISEASES

Emerging diseases in Chiroptera: why bats?

(2010) G. Wibbelt et al.   Biology Letters

Sources of Assimilated Proteins in Old and New World Phytophagous Bats

(2010) Christian C. Voigt et al.   BIOTROPICA

The two suborders of chiropterans have the canonical heavy-chain immunoglobulin (Ig) gene repertoire of eutherian mammals

(2010) John E. Butler et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL AND COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Hibernation: the immune system at rest?

(2010) Hjalmar R. Bouma et al.   JOURNAL OF LEUKOCYTE BIOLOGY

Henipavirus RNA in African Bats

(2009) Jan Felix Drexler et al.   PLoS One

Isolation of Genetically Diverse Marburg Viruses from Egyptian Fruit Bats

(2009) Jonathan S. Towner et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Carpe noctem: the importance of bats as bioindicators

(2009) G Jones et al.   Endangered Species Research

Cross-Species Virus Transmission and the Emergence of New Epidemic Diseases

(2008) C. R. Parrish et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

Primitive Early Eocene bat from Wyoming and the evolution of flight and echolocation

(2008) Nancy B. Simmons et al.   NATURE

Evidence of Henipavirus Infection in West African Fruit Bats

(2008) David T. S. Hayman et al.   PLoS One

Bat White-Nose Syndrome: An Emerging Fungal Pathogen?

(2008) D. S. Blehert et al.   SCIENCE

Newly Discovered Ebola Virus Associated with Hemorrhagic Fever Outbreak in Uganda

(2008) Jonathan S. Towner et al.   PLoS Pathogens