Viral Communities Among Sympatric Vampire Bats and Cattle
Por:
Escalera-Zamudio, Marina, Taboada, Blanca, Rojas-Anaya, Edith, Löber U., Loza-Rubio, Elizabeth, Arias, Carlos F., Greenwood, Alex D.
Publicada:
1 mar 2018
Ahead of Print:
1 ene 2017
Resumen:
Vampire bats are the only mammals known to feed exclusively on blood from other animals, often from domestic cattle. We tested the hypothesis that the adaptation of vampire bats to hematophagy would have resulted in shared viral communities among vampire bats and cattle, as a direct result of historic spillover events occurring due to hematophagy. We analyzed the presence of different viruses in sample populations of sympatric bat and prey populations and searched for shared viruses between taxa. A limited number of DNA viral groups were detected within each species. However, there was no evidence for a shared viral community among the vampire bat and cattle populations tested. © 2017, EcoHealth Alliance.
Filiaciones:
Department of Wildlife Diseases, Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Alfred-Kowalke-Straße 17, Berlin, Germany
Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Parks Rd, Oxford, United Kingdom
Departamento de Genética del Desarrollo y Fisiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Centro Nacional de Investigacion Disciplinaria en Microbiologia Animal CENID-INIFAP, Mexico City, Mexico
Department of Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Leibniz Inst Zoo & Wildlife Res IZW, Dept Wildlife Dis, Alfred Kowalke Str 17, D-10315 Berlin, Germany
Univ Oxford, Dept Zool, Peter Medawar Bldg Pathogen Res, Parks Rd, Oxford OX1 3SY, England
Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Biotecnol, Dept Genet Desarrollo & Fisiol Mol, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
Ctr Nacl Invest Disciplinaria Microbiol Anim CENI, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
Free Univ Berlin, Dept Vet Med, Berlin, Germany
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