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SUBMITTER: Guy C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7319232 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guy Cylita C Ratcliffe John M JM Mideo Nicole N
Ecology and evolution 20200508 12
Repeated emergence of zoonotic viruses from bat reservoirs into human populations demands predictive approaches to preemptively identify virus-carrying bat species. Here, we use machine learning to examine drivers of viral diversity in bats, determine whether those drivers depend on viral genome type, and predict undetected viral carriers. Our results indicate that bat species with longer life spans, broad geographic distributions in the eastern hemisphere, and large group sizes carry more virus ...[more]