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Tissue Collection of Bats for -Omics Analyses and Primary Cell Culture
Published on: October 23, 2019
Laying the foundation for single-cell studies in bats
Arinjay Banerjee1, Karen Mossman2
1Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5E3, Canada; Department of Veterinary Microbiology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B4, Canada; Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A8, Canada.
Abstract:
Bats serve as hosts of viruses that can cause disease in humans. In this issue of Immunity, Gamage et al. characterize the immune cell repertoire in Eonycteris spelaea bat lung tissue using single-cell transcriptomics, providing insight into the in vivo immune response to infection with a Pteropine orthoreovirus (PRV3M) and establishing a paradigm for future comparative immunology studies.
