title: A novel endogenous betaretrovirus in the common vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) suggests multiple independent infection and cross-species transmission events.
abstract: The Desmodus rotundus endogenous betaretrovirus (DrERV) is fixed in the vampire bat D. rotundus population and in other phyllostomid bats but is not present in all species from this family. DrERV is not phylogenetically related to Old World bat betaretroviruses but to betaretroviruses from rodents and New World primates, suggesting recent cross-species transmission. A recent integration age estimation of the provirus in some taxa indicates that an exogenous counterpart might have been in recent circulation.
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany escalera@izw-berlin.de greenwood@izw-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Marina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Escalera-Zamudio
authors.affiliation: Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: M Lisandra Zepeda
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Mendoza
authors.affiliation: Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Felix
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Heeger
authors.affiliation: Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Microbiología Animal-INIFAP, Mexico City, Mexico.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Loza-Rubio
authors.affiliation: Centro Nacional de Investigación Disciplinaria en Microbiología Animal-INIFAP, Mexico City, Mexico.
authors.forename: Edith
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rojas-Anaya
authors.affiliation: Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico.
authors.forename: Maria L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Méndez-Ojeda
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico.
authors.forename: Blanca
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Taboada
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Camila J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Mazzoni
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Biotecnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Cuernavaca Morelos, Mexico.
authors.forename: Carlos F
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Arias
authors.affiliation: Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), Berlin, Germany escalera@izw-berlin.de greenwood@izw-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Alex D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Greenwood
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D030121:Betaretrovirus / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000235:genetics* / Q000821:virology*; D020077:Endogenous Retroviruses / Q000145:classification* / Q000235:genetics / Q000302:isolation & purification; D023061:Gene Order; D010802:Phylogeny; D011323:Primates / Q000821:virology; D012192:Retroviridae Infections / Q000662:veterinary* / Q000821:virology; D012377:Rodentia / Q000821:virology; D026801:Synteny