Progress in combatting zoonoses that emerge from wildlife is often constrained by limited
knowledge of the biology of pathogens within reservoir hosts. We focus on the host …

Bats are hosts of a range of viruses, including ebolaviruses, and many important human viral
infections, such as measles and mumps, may have their ancestry traced back to bats. Here, I …

Despite recent advances in our understanding of the genomics of members of the genus
Leptospira, little is known on how virulence has emerged in this heterogeneous bacterial …

Bats have received considerable recent attention for infectious disease research because of
their potential to host and transmit viruses, including Ebola, Hendra, Nipah, and multiple …

Wildlife populations are under increasing pressure from a variety of threatening processes,
ranging from climate change to habitat loss, that can incite a physiological stress response …

Viruses infect all forms of life and play critical roles as agents of disease, drivers of
biochemical cycles and sources of genetic diversity for their hosts. Our understanding of viral …

Pteropid bats or flying-foxes (Chiroptera: Pteropodidae) are the natural host of Hendra virus
(HeV) which sporadically causes fatal disease in horses and humans in eastern Australia …

Urbanization is a widespread intense land use that generally results in biodiversity decline.
Among the taxa capable to adapt to urban landscapes, bats are particularly ubiquitous …

In Africa, bat‐borne zoonoses emerged in the past few decades resulting in large outbreaks
or just sporadic spillovers. In addition, hundreds of more viruses are described without any …

A growing number of recent studies have highlighted bats as a reservoir for Leptospira
bacteria, pointing out the potential role of bats in the epidemiology of the most widespread …