Viral Metagenomic Profiling of Croatian Bat Population Reveals Sample and Habitat Dependent Diversity

• Published in: Viruses
• Main Authors: Ivana Šimić, Tomaž Mark Zorec, Ivana Lojkić, Nina Krešić, Mario Poljak, Florence Cliquet, Evelyne Picard-Meyer, Marine Wasniewski, Vida Zrnčić, Anđela Ćukušić, Tomislav Bedeković
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2020
• Subjects: bats; viral metagenomics; Croatia; virus; diversity; Microbiology; QR1-502; Guano; Myotis nattereri
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/v12080891; https://doaj.org/article/d2263d11bea54a3cb168eebb08d61fe7

To date, the microbiome, as well as the virome of the Croatian populations of bats, was unknown. Here, we present the results of the first viral metagenomic analysis of guano, feces and saliva (oral swabs) of seven bat species ( Myotis myotis , Miniopterus schreibersii , Rhinolophus ferrumequinum ,...