On the Evolution of Virulent Zoonotic Viruses in Bats

Ideas formulated by Paul Ewald about the “evolution of virulence” are used to explain why bats, more often than other mammals, are a reservoir of virulent viruses, and why many of these viruses severely affect other mammals, including humans, but are apparently less pathogenic for bats. Potential fa...

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Autor principal: Roes, Frans L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7566996/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33100932
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-020-00363-6
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description Ideas formulated by Paul Ewald about the “evolution of virulence” are used to explain why bats, more often than other mammals, are a reservoir of virulent viruses, and why many of these viruses severely affect other mammals, including humans, but are apparently less pathogenic for bats. Potential factors contributing to bat viruses often being zoonotic are briefly discussed.
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spelling pubmed-75669962020-10-19 On the Evolution of Virulent Zoonotic Viruses in Bats Roes, Frans L. Biol Theory Original Article Ideas formulated by Paul Ewald about the “evolution of virulence” are used to explain why bats, more often than other mammals, are a reservoir of virulent viruses, and why many of these viruses severely affect other mammals, including humans, but are apparently less pathogenic for bats. Potential factors contributing to bat viruses often being zoonotic are briefly discussed. Springer Netherlands 2020-10-16 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7566996/ /pubmed/33100932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13752-020-00363-6 Text en © Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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