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Filovirus receptor NPC1 contributes to species-specific patterns of ebolavirus susceptibility in bats

eLife, 2015
Biological factors that influence the host range and spillover of Ebola virus (EBOV) and other filoviruses remain enigmatic. While filoviruses infect diverse mammalian cell lines, we report that cells from African straw-colored fruit bats (Eidolon helvum)
Melinda Ng, Esther Ndungo, Maria E Kaczmarek, Andrew S Herbert, Tabea Binger, Ana I Kuehne, Rohit K Jangra, John A Hawkins, Robert J Gifford, Rohan Biswas, Ann Demogines, Rebekah M James, Meng Yu, Thijn R Brummelkamp, Christian Drosten, Lin-Fa Wang, Jens H Kuhn, Marcel A Müller, John M Dye, Sara L Sawyer, Kartik Chandran   +20 more
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Antibodies against Lagos Bat Virus in Megachiroptera from West Africa

Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008
To investigate the presence of Lagos bat virus (LBV)–specific antibodies in megachiroptera from West Africa, we conducted fluorescent antibody virus neutralization tests.
David T.S. Hayman, Anthony R. Fooks, Daniel Horton, Richard Suu-Ire, Andrew C. Breed, Andrew A. Cunningham, James L.N. Wood   +6 more
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Evidence of henipavirus infection in West African fruit bats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
Henipaviruses are emerging RNA viruses of fruit bat origin that can cause fatal encephalitis in man. Ghanaian fruit bats (megachiroptera) were tested for antibodies to henipaviruses. Using a Luminex multiplexed microsphere assay, antibodies were detected
David T S Hayman, Richard Suu-Ire, Andrew C Breed, Jennifer A McEachern, Linfa Wang, James L N Wood, Andrew A Cunningham   +6 more
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Biological clocks as age estimation markers in animals: a systematic review and meta‐analysis

Biological Reviews, Volume 98, Issue 6, Page 1972-2011, December 2023., 2023
ABSTRACT Various biological attributes associated with individual fitness in animals change predictably over the lifespan of an organism. Therefore, the study of animal ecology and the work of conservationists frequently relies upon the ability to assign animals to functionally relevant age classes to model population fitness.
Louis‐Stéphane Le Clercq, Antoinette Kotzé, J. Paul Grobler, Desiré Lee Dalton   +3 more
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Antibodies to henipavirus or henipa-like viruses in domestic pigs in Ghana, West Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2011
Henipaviruses, Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV), have Pteropid bats as their known natural reservoirs. Antibodies against henipaviruses have been found in Eidolon helvum, an old world fruit bat species, and henipavirus-like nucleic acid has been ...
David T S Hayman, Lin-Fa Wang, Jennifer Barr, Kate S Baker, Richard Suu-Ire, Christopher C Broder, Andrew A Cunningham, James L N Wood   +7 more
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Henipavirus RNA in African bats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2009
BackgroundHenipaviruses (Hendra and Nipah virus) are highly pathogenic members of the family Paramyxoviridae. Fruit-eating bats of the Pteropus genus have been suggested as their natural reservoir.
Jan Felix Drexler, Victor Max Corman, Florian Gloza-Rausch, Antje Seebens, Augustina Annan, Anne Ipsen, Thomas Kruppa, Marcel A Müller, Elisabeth K V Kalko, Yaw Adu-Sarkodie, Samuel Oppong, Christian Drosten   +11 more
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Two novel parvoviruses in frugivorous New and Old World bats. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Bats, a globally distributed group of mammals with high ecological importance, are increasingly recognized as natural reservoir hosts for viral agents of significance to human and animal health.
Marta Canuti, Anna Maria Eis-Huebinger, Martin Deijs, Michel de Vries, Jan Felix Drexler, Samuel K Oppong, Marcel A Müller, Stefan M Klose, Nele Wellinghausen, Veronika M Cottontail, Elisabeth K V Kalko, Christian Drosten, Lia van der Hoek   +12 more
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Ocular morphology of the fruit bat, Eidolon helvum, and the optical role of the choroidal papillae in the megachiropteran eye: a novel insight

Folia Morphologica, 2022
BACKGROUND: This work was designed to provide a morphologic, morphometric and histochemical description of the eye of the African straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum).
I. K. Peter-Ajuzie, I. C. Nwaogu, L. O. Majesty-Alukagberie, A. C. Ajaebili, F. A. Farrag, M. A. Kassab, K. Morsy, M. Abumandour   +7 more
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Bat trait, genetic and pathogen data from large-scale investigations of African fruit bats, Eidolon helvum. [PDF]

Sci Data, 2016
Bats, including African straw-coloured fruit bats (Eidolon helvum), have been highlighted as reservoirs of many recently emerged zoonotic viruses. This common, widespread and ecologically important species was the focus of longitudinal and continent-wide
Peel AJ, Baker KS, Hayman DT, Suu-Ire R, Breed AC, Gembu GC, Lembo T, Fernández-Loras A, Sargan DR, Fooks AR, Cunningham AA, Wood JL.   +11 more
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Eidolon helvum

, 2005
Published as part of Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn, 2005, Order Chiroptera - Family Pteropodidae, pp. 313-350 in Mammal Species of the World: a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference (3 rd Edition), Volume 1, Baltimore :The Johns Hopkins University Press on page 321, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo ...
Wilson, Don E., Reeder, DeeAnn
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