Fig 1.
Location of the studied Eidolon helvum roosts.
Panel A shows the locations of the roosts in Africa. Panel B shows some of the trees occupied at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, Ghana and Panel C shows roosting bats at the Kikundi Market in Morogoro, Tanzania.
Fig 2.
Eidolon helvum monthly abundance (blue line), precipitation (green line), and coronavirus shedding (red line) at the roost in Morogoro, Tanzania (left); and at the roost in Accra, Ghana (right).
Color bands indicate the “lactation” (orange), “weaning” (purple), and “rest of the year” (blue) reproductive periods.
Table 1.
The lower and upper endpoints of the 95% Highest Posterior Density Interval (HPDI) of the predicted monthly proportion of Eidolon helvum shedding coronaviruses in Morogoro, Tanzania produced by a sine-cosine model with a period of 12 months and a single annual maximum and minimum.
Fig 3.
The Posterior Probability Distributions (light blue) and the corresponding 95% Highest Posterior Density Interval (blue) of the odds ratio for coronavirus shedding by Eidolon helvum in the roost at Morogoro Tanzania during the “weaning” period versus the “rest of the year”, during the “weaning” period versus the “lactation” period, and during the “lactation” period versus the “rest of the year”.
The vertical black line indicates a neutral odds ratio with a value of one.