2023
The coevolutionary mosaic of bat betacoronavirus emergence risk
Forero-Muñoz N, Muylaert R, Seifert S, Albery G, Becker D, Carlson C, Poisot T. The coevolutionary mosaic of bat betacoronavirus emergence risk. Virus Evolution 2023, 10: vead079. PMID: 38361817, PMCID: PMC10868545, DOI: 10.1093/ve/vead079.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchSpatially explicit frameworkGeographic mosaic theory of coevolutionHost richnessGeographies of riskExplicit frameworkGeographic mosaic theoryTheory of coevolutionGlobal biogeographySub-Saharan AfricaDisease emergencePathogen evolutionEvolutionary riskSub-SaharanViral emergenceMiddle EastHotspotsSoutheast Asia
2022
Present and future distribution of bat hosts of sarbecoviruses: implications for conservation and public health
Muylaert R, Kingston T, Luo J, Vancine M, Galli N, Carlson C, John R, Rulli M, Hayman D. Present and future distribution of bat hosts of sarbecoviruses: implications for conservation and public health. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B 2022, 289: 20220397. PMID: 35611534, PMCID: PMC9130791, DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0397.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLoss of population connectivityPredictors of species distributionsReservoirs of diverse virusesBiodiversity extinction crisisProject future scenariosModel current distributionHotspots shiftLandscape relationshipsLocal extinctionSpecies distributionHuman encroachmentExtinction crisisSARS-like virusesPopulation connectivityTemperature seasonalityNatural habitatsGlobal changeHost distributionEcological nichesFuture scenariosBat hostsHotspotsDiverse virusesViral spilloverHuman population