Bats are presumed reservoirs of diverse coronaviruses (CoVs) including progenitors of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of …

During the past two decades, three zoonotic coronaviruses have been identified as the
cause of large-scale disease outbreaks–Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) …

Although coronaviruses are known to infect various animals by adapting to new hosts,
interspecies transmission events are still poorly understood. During a surveillance study …

The existence of coronaviruses in bats is unknown until the recent discovery of bat-SARS-
CoV in Chinese horseshoe bats and a novel group 1 coronavirus in other bat species …

In the past two decades, three coronaviruses with ancestral origins in bats have emerged
and caused widespread outbreaks in humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002, Middle East respiratory
syndrome in 2012 and fatal swine acute diarrhea syndrome in 2017 caused serious …

Bats are a unique group of mammals of the order Chiroptera. They are highly diversified and
are the group of mammals with the second largest number of species. Such highly …

Despite the discovery of animal coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2, the evolutionary
origins of this virus are elusive. We describe a meta-transcriptomic study of 411 bat samples …

To help reveal the diversity and evolution of bat coronaviruses we collected 1067 bats from
21 species in China. A total of 73 coronaviruses (32 alphacoronaviruses and 41 …

A novel group 1 coronavirus was previously identified in bent-winged bats (Miniopterus
spp.). Here, results are described from our ongoing surveillance of these bats for …