Scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China have discovered a new lineage of a coronavirus in bats that can enter human cells in a similar fashion as SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid ...

But nearly half of the species in the genus are threatened with extinction, a new analysis finds, putting the genus — which ...

Four of the nine species of Adirondack bats belong to the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats. The little brown bat is the most abundant of the four, and is the common bat of the region. During the ...

as representatives of open-space foraging bats, and species of the genus mouse-eared bats (Myotis) and long-eared bats (Plecotus) as representatives of narrow space foraging bats. Bats are ...

A new coronavirus has just been detected in bats. Lab tests show the virus can infect human cells, but experts say not to be concerned. Here’s everything we know so far. What is the new bat ...

Jing Chen at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China and her colleagues sequenced genetic material collected from bats of the genus Pipistrellus in China in 2014. One of the viruses isolated from ...

The recent study picked up the virus after analyzing anal swabs taken from a certain type of bat from the genus Pipistrellus. This coronavirus is in the same family as Middle East respiratory syndrome ...

According to the study, published last week in the journal Cell, scientists found the coronavirus in anal swab samples taken from a bat of the genus Pipistrellus. A lab experiment showed that the ...