id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-304481-yqc8r3ll Luis, Angela D. Network analysis of host–virus communities in bats and rodents reveals determinants of cross‐species transmission 2015-08-24 .txt text/plain 5992 307 52 Here, we use a network approach to identify ecological and biological correlates of cross‐species virus transmission in bats and rodents, another important host group. We identify multiple communities of viral sharing within bats and rodents and highlight potential species traits that can help guide studies of novel pathogen emergence. Rodents are a suitable group for comparison because they also host many important zoonotic viruses and share many of the characteristics hypothesised to make bats suitable as viral reservoirs. Host traits that correlated with the highest degree within the bat network (the most connections or viruses shared), in order of importance, were gregariousness and sympatry; diet was marginally important (Fig. 2b, Table S6 and S7). For rodents, sympatry was the most important host trait; species whose distributions overlapped with a greater number of other rodent species had more viruses and higher degree and betweenness (Fig. 2d-f and Table S11-S19). ./cache/cord-304481-yqc8r3ll.txt ./txt/cord-304481-yqc8r3ll.txt