Table 1.
Variables included in study-level and all data models.
Fig 1.
Research and study-level trends.
(A) Number of bat species sampled by year study was published; (B) Number of total viruses found by year study was published; (C) Number of novel viruses found by year study was published; (D) Detection methods used by year study was published; (E) Number of bat species by study; (F) Number of viral families tested per study.
Table 2.
Best generalized linear mixed models for study-level data–number of novel and total viruses.
Table 3.
Best generalized linear mixed models for all data–probability of detection.
Fig 2.
Number of novel viruses found in lethal versus non-lethal studies by viral family.
Table 4.
Fitted generalized linear mixed models for data subsetted by viral family and viral detection method.
Fig 3.
Prevalence of positive specimens by viral family for each specimen type.
Boxplots show primary tests only; subsequent tests were not used. (A) Median viral prevalence in feces; (B) Median viral prevalence in tissue; (C) Median viral prevalence in saliva; (D) Median viral prevalence in blood/sera (serology only); (E) Median viral prevalence in urine.
Fig 4.
Viral prevalence by host and viral family for all molecular studies.
(A) Molecular prevalence by host family; (B) Molecular prevalence by viral family.
Table 5.
Mean prevalences of specimens tested by detection method stratified by specimen type and viral family.
Fig 5.
Heat map of viral richness by host and viral families, clustered by host and viral families.