Cospeciation of coronavirus and paramyxovirus with their bat hosts in the same geographical areas

Abstract Background Bat-borne viruses are relatively host specific. We hypothesize that this host specificity is due to coevolution of the viruses with their hosts. To test this hypothesis, we investigated the coevolution of coronavirus and paramyxovirus with their bat hosts. Published nucleotide se...

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Main Authors: Jie Liang, Chunchao Zhu, Libiao Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-07-01
Series:BMC Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01878-7