A metagenomic viral discovery approach identifies potential zoonotic and novel mammalian viruses in Neoromicia bats within South Africa

• Marike Geldenhuys,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Marinda Mortlock,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Jacqueline Weyer,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Oliver Bezuidt,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Microbial Ecology and Genomics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Ernest C. J. Seamark,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations AfricanBats NPC, Pretoria, South Africa, Eugène Marais Chair of Wildlife Management, Mammal Research Institute, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Teresa Kearney,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Cheryl Gleasner,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Tracy H. Erkkila,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Helen Cui,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States of America

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• Wanda Markotter

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wanda.markotter@up.ac.za

  Affiliation Centre for Viral Zoonoses, Department of Medical Virology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

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