Abstract
Bats host diverse coronaviruses, including taxa capable of pandemic spread in humans. We report the genome of an alphacoronavirus from a neotropical bat species (Desmodus rotundus) in Peru, which contributes to our understanding of bat coronaviruses in nature.
Highlights
Bats host diverse coronaviruses, including taxa capable of pandemic spread in humans
Maximum likelihood phylogenetic analysis performed in RAxML v.8.2.8 [16], using the LGϩIϩG substitution model identified
Two Brazilian vampire bat sequences, which were within ORF1b but did not overlap completely with the RdRp section used for phylogenetic analysis, were compared to DesRot/Peru/Amazonas/CoV separately, displaying pairwise nucleotide identities of 69.2% over 52 bp (EU236685.1) and 98.1% over 572 bp (KU552072.1)
Summary
Bats host diverse coronaviruses, including taxa capable of pandemic spread in humans. A 272-amino-acid section of the RdRp gene [5] was aligned with other representative CoVs using MAFFT v.7.017 [15].
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