When a new disease like SARS threatens to become pandemic, it becomes obvious why we need experts who can track the source of the disease not just to bats in general but to Chinese horseshoe bats of the genus Rhinolophus. (discovermagazine.com)
The frequency of horseshoe bat calls appears to be a driving force in their evolution. (sciencemag.org)
It shares 95 percent of its genetic code with another coronavirus, HKU2, detected in horseshoe bats in 2007. (sciencenews.org)