Misconceptions and misinformation about bats and viruses

Affiliations

• ¹ ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, France. Electronic address: sebastien.puechmaille@umontpellier.fr.
• ² GRAM2.0, University of Caen Normandy, Caen, 14000, France; Virology Department, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Caen, Caen 14000, France.
• ³ Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Department of Migration, Radolfzell, Germany.
• ⁴ Department of Biology, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Bat Eco-Interactions, USA.
• ⁶ Institute of Ecology, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
• ⁷ Global Wildlife Conservation, Austin, USA.
• ⁸ Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, United Kingdom.
• ⁹ Department of Biology, Bucknell University, USA.
• ¹⁰ Department of Biology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹¹ Population Biology, Ecology, and Evolution Graduate Program, Emory University, USA.
• ¹² Institute of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, Ulm University, Germany.