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: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: bats; viral metagenomics; Croatia; virus; diversity; Guano; Myotis nattereri
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/v12080891

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, Epte...