Comparative phylogeography of African fruit bats (Chiroptera, Pteropodidae) provide new insights into the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in West Africa, 2014–2016

Comptes Rendus - Biologies

Volumn 339, Issue 11-12, 2016, Pages 517-528

  Hassanin, Alexandre ^a,b   Nesi, Nicolas ^a,b   Marin, Julie ^a   Kadjo, Blaise ^c   Pourrut, Xavier ^d   Leroy, Éric ^d   Gembu, Guy Crispin ^e   Musaba Akawa, Prescott ^e   Ngoagouni, Carine ^f   Nakouné, Emmanuel ^f   Ruedi, Manuel ^g   Tshikung, Didier ^h   Pongombo Shongo, Célestin ^h   Bonillo, Céline ^b  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d CENTRE INTERNATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉDICALES DE FRANCEVILLE   (Gabon)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KISANGANI   (Congo)

^f INSTITUT PASTEUR DE BANGUI   (Central African Republic)

^g MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITÉ DE LUBUMBASHI   (Congo)

Author keywords

Ebolavirus; Filovirus; Guinea; Megachiroptera; Migration; Rainforests; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

NUCLEOTIDE; DNA; GENETIC MARKER;

BAT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOCHROME; DIVERGENCE; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; LIFE CYCLE; MIGRATION; PEST OUTBREAK; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; RAINFOREST;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL AFRICA; CLADISTICS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGO; CYTB GENE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EIDOLON; EIDOLON GAMBIANUS; EIDOLON HELVUM; EPIDEMIC; EPOMOPHORINI; EPOMOPHORUS GAMBIANUS; EPOMOPS BUETTIKOFERI; EPOMOPS FRANQUETI; FLYING FOX; FOREST; GENE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GUINEA; HOST; HYPSIGNATHUS MONSTROSUS; MICROPTEROPUS PUSILLUS; MYONYCTERIS TORQUATA; NANONYCTERIS VELDKAMPII; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; ROUSETTUS; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS; SCOTONYCTERINI; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VIRUS DETECTION; ANIMAL; BAT; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

GUINEA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CHIROPTERA; EBOLA VIRUS; EIDOLON; EIDOLON HELVUM; EPOMOPHORUS; EPOMOPHORUS GAMBIANUS; EPOMOPS; EPOMOPS BUETTIKOFERI; EPOMOPS FRANQUETI; HYPSIGNATHUS MONSTROSUS; MARBURGVIRUS; MEGACHIROPTERA; MICROPTEROPUS PUSILLUS; MYA; MYONYCTERIS TORQUATA; NANONYCTERIS; PTEROPODIDAE; ROUSETTUS; ROUSETTUS AEGYPTIACUS; ZAIRE EBOLAVIRUS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKERS; GEOGRAPHY; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84991232656     PISSN: 16310691     EISSN: 17683238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crvi.2016.09.005     Document Type: Article

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