id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-261547-8tfbhmzo Góes, Luiz Gustavo Bentim Genetic diversity of bats coronaviruses in the Atlantic Forest hotspot biome, Brazil 2016-07-26 .txt text/plain 1972 112 56 In this report, we identified and characterized previously unknown and diverse genetic clusters of bat coronaviruses in the Atlantic Forest Biome, Brazil. Recently, a number of novel bats CoVs have been identified, primarily from African, Asian and European bats (Calisher et al., 2006; Chu et al., 2006; Drexler et al., 2014) , as well as from South American countries including Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Mexico and Brazil (Corman et al., 2013; Goes et al., 2013) . Coronaviruses were detected in 15 bat intestines samples from eight bat species with distinct diet habit, demonstrating a marked potential of CoVs distribution among bat species in AFB that harbours 9% of world's bat diversity. α-CoV sequences obtained from bats of same genus presented high nucleotide sequence similarity (e.g. Artibeus, Glossophaga, Carollia, Molossus, Myotis and Sturnira) (Fig. 1D and Supplementary table), even with sequences detected in other studies from bats of geographically distant regions. It is indispensable in future to investigate the evolutionary events in genetically diverse bats CoVs using complete genome sequences, and their possible transmission potentials to human being. ./cache/cord-261547-8tfbhmzo.txt ./txt/cord-261547-8tfbhmzo.txt