Bats and Viruses : Current Research and Future Trends / edited by Eugenia Corrales-Aguilar and Martin Schwemmle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Corrales-Aguilar, Eugenia, editor.

Schwemmle, Martin, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bats as carriers of disease.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages)

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Place of Publication:

Norfolk : Caister Academic Press, [2020]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Intro; Contents; 1. Bats and Viruses: Introduction; Bats and viruses; Book chapters; 2. Bats and Flaviviruses; The Flavivirus genus, a diverse collection of viruses; Flaviviruses: general characteristics; Evidence of flavivirus detection and isolation from bats; Bats as reservoirs of human flaviviruses or accidental hosts?; Bat-mosquito cycle: are bats a source for mosquito feeding?; Conclusions; 3. Alphavirus and Its Vertebrate Hosts; Introduction; Alphavirus and rodents; Conclusions; 4. Bat Influenza A-like Viruses; Introduction; Generation of chimeric bat influenza A-like viruses

The envelope proteins of bat influenza A-like virusesThe M2 proteins of bat influenza A viruses; The polymerase complex of bat influenza A viruses; The viral nucleoprotein of bat influenza A viruses; The NS1 protein of bat influenza A viruses; Is there a zoonotic risk associated with bat IALV?; Resume; 5. Bats and Coronaviruses; Introduction

history of coronavirus discovery; The coronavirus genome; Bats as the origin of SARS coronavirus; Bats as the gene pool of alphacoronaviruses and betacoronaviruses; Bats as the origin of MERS coronavirus; Conclusion

6. Genetic Diversity and Geographic Distribution of Bat-borne HantavirusesIntroduction; Taxonomy; Hantavirus disease; Rodents as reservoir hosts; Shrews and moles as reservoir hosts; Bats as reservoir hosts; Molecular phylogeny; Discussion; Future research; 7. Bat Polyomaviruses: A Challenge to the Strict Host-Restriction Paradigm within the Mammalian Polyomaviridae; Introduction; Polyomaviruses are highly host-restricted; Polyomavirus genomes identified in insectivorous and frugivorous bat species; Recombination events in the family Polyomaviridae

Intra-genera transmission of horseshoe bat Polyomaviruses: a challenge to the paradigm of host-restriction within the mammalian PolyomaviridaeEstimation of time to most recent common ancestor for Rhinolophus PyVs; Generation and characterization of bat cell lines immortalized with large T antigen; Discussion; 8. Innate Immunity in Bats; Introduction; The interferon (IFN) response; Sequencing reveals intact IFN systems but with varying differences in bats versus humans or mice; Transcriptomics demonstrates expression and inducibility of bat type I IFN responses

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2021).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clarence J. Marshall Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9781912530151

1912530155

Publisher Number:

99986572854

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.