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. 2016 Mar;13(1):18-25.
doi: 10.1007/s10393-015-1053-0. Epub 2015 Aug 13.

Assessing the Evidence Supporting Fruit Bats as the Primary Reservoirs for Ebola Viruses

Siv Aina J Leendertz  1 , Jan F Gogarten  2   3   4 , Ariane Düx  2 , Sebastien Calvignac-Spencer  2 , Fabian H Leendertz  2
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Assessing the Evidence Supporting Fruit Bats as the Primary Reservoirs for Ebola Viruses

Siv Aina J Leendertz et al. Ecohealth. 2016 Mar.
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Figure 1
EBOV and MARV seroprevalence in bats. In each panel, each line represents a study. Circle size is proportional to the number of individuals that were tested. Bars represent 95% confidence intervals on proportions.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Cladogram of bat genera occurring in countries predicted to belong to the EBOV zoonotic niche, bat species richness and EBOV testing intensity. This cladogram was created using PhyML 3.0 (Guindon et al. 2010) and derived from the analysis of short barcode sequences (partial mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1) and may therefore not accurately represent the relationships between genera: Red branches on the phylogeny represent genera in the family Pteropodidae. Note that genera for which no barcode was available are not included (pteropodids: Casinycteris, Hypsignathus, Plerotes; other bats: Cistugo, Cloeotis, Laephotis, Lavia, Mimetillus, Mormopterus, Myopterus, Myzopoda, Nycticeinops, Platymops, Sauromys); altogether these genera only account for 18/221 species (8%) and 128/7672 of the bats tested for EBOV (21 Casinycteris and 127 Hypsignathus; 2%). The list of countries predicted to belong to the EBOV zoonotic niche was obtained from (Pigott et al. 2014).
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