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Mol Ecol. 2019 Nov 28. doi: 10.1111/mec.15306. [Epub ahead of print] [h=1]Unravelling virus community ecology in bats through the integration of metagenomics and community ecology.[/h]
Wille M[SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h] 1 WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] The spillover of viruses from wildlife into agricultural animals or humans has profound socioeconomic and public health impact. Vampire bats, found throughout South America, feed directly on humans and other animals and are an important reservoir for zoonotic viruses, including rabies virus. This has resulted in considerable effort in understanding both the ecology of bat-borne viruses and the composition and associated correlates of the structure of entire virus communities in wildlife, particularly in the context of disease control interventions. In a From the Cover article in this issue of Molecular Ecology, Bergner et al. (2019) set out to reveal virus community dynamics in vampire bats by interrogating factors that affect the structure, diversity and richness of these communities. Due to the linkage of metagenomic sequence data with community ecology, this study represents an important advance in the field of virus ecology.
? 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] bioinformatics/phyloinformatics; community ecology; disease biology; metagenomics
PMID: 31782201 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15306
Wille M[SUP]1[/SUP].
[h=3]Author information[/h] 1 WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Vic., Australia.
[h=3]Abstract[/h] The spillover of viruses from wildlife into agricultural animals or humans has profound socioeconomic and public health impact. Vampire bats, found throughout South America, feed directly on humans and other animals and are an important reservoir for zoonotic viruses, including rabies virus. This has resulted in considerable effort in understanding both the ecology of bat-borne viruses and the composition and associated correlates of the structure of entire virus communities in wildlife, particularly in the context of disease control interventions. In a From the Cover article in this issue of Molecular Ecology, Bergner et al. (2019) set out to reveal virus community dynamics in vampire bats by interrogating factors that affect the structure, diversity and richness of these communities. Due to the linkage of metagenomic sequence data with community ecology, this study represents an important advance in the field of virus ecology.
? 2019 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
[h=4]KEYWORDS:[/h] bioinformatics/phyloinformatics; community ecology; disease biology; metagenomics
PMID: 31782201 DOI: 10.1111/mec.15306