Scientists Fallowsage Museum of natural history in Chicago has revealed a deep evolutionary relationship between the viruses and the bats. Infectious agents and bats have evolved together for millions of years. Article researchers published in the journal Scientific Reports.
the Experts took blood samples from more than a thousand of bats belonging to 36 species of bats, and living on Islands in the Western Indian ocean and the coastal parts of Mozambique. Eight percent of the animals were discovered coronaviruses. Scientists have identified the genetic material of infectious agents sequenced genomes (set of nucleotide sequence) and compared them with the genomes of coronaviruses other animals, including dolphins, alpacas and people. This allowed us to construct a family tree of the viruses.
Biologists have come to the conclusion that the coronaviruses and bats is closely co-existed at the level of genus and families. For example, coronaviruses fruit bats of the Pteropodidae family from different continents and Islands are genetically different from viruses of other groups of bats found in the same geographic areas. Only in rare cases, bats of different families, genera and species that live in the same caves can have the same strain of coronavirus.
