Viral Communities Among Sympatric Vampire Bats and Cattle |
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| Authors: | Marina Escalera-Zamudio Blanca Taboada Edith Rojas-Anaya Ulrike Löber Elizabeth Loza-Rubio Carlos F Arias Alex D Greenwood |
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| Institution: | 1.Department of Wildlife Diseases,Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW),Berlin,Germany;2.Departamento de Genetica del Desarrollo y Fisiología Molecular, Instituto de Biotecnologia,Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México,Cuernavaca,Mexico;3.Centro Nacional de Investigacion Disciplinaria en Microbiologia Animal CENID-INIFAP,Mexico City,Mexico;4.Department of Veterinary Medicine,Freie Universit?t Berlin,Berlin,Germany;5.Peter Medawar Building for Pathogen Research, Department of Zoology,University of Oxford,Oxford,UK |
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| Abstract: | Vampire bats are the only mammals known to feed exclusively on blood from other animals, often from domestic cattle. We tested the hypothesis that the adaptation of vampire bats to hematophagy would have resulted in shared viral communities among vampire bats and cattle, as a direct result of historic spillover events occurring due to hematophagy. We analyzed the presence of different viruses in sample populations of sympatric bat and prey populations and searched for shared viruses between taxa. A limited number of DNA viral groups were detected within each species. However, there was no evidence for a shared viral community among the vampire bat and cattle populations tested. |
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