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

• Published in: Viruses
• Main Authors: Šimić, Ivana, Zorec, Tomaž Mark, Lojkić, Ivana, Krešić, Nina, Poljak, Mario, Cliquet, Florence, Picard-Meyer, Evelyne, Wasniewski, Marine, Zrnčić, Vida, Ćukušić, Anđela, Bedeković, Tomislav
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI 2020
• Subjects: Article; Guano; Myotis nattereri
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7472731/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32824037; 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...