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Are #Bats and #Rodents special reservoirs? New study found that "Animal orders of established importance as zoonotic reservoirs including bats and rodents were UNEXCEPTIONAL, maintaining numbers of zoonoses that closely matched expectations for mammalian groups of their size. 1/n 
More host species = more viral species all together. As simple as that!
"[...] reservoir species richness was correlated with both the number of zoonotic viruses (65.5% of deviance) and the viral richness (56.4% of deviance) of different reservoir orders" 2/n
"[...] reservoir species richness was correlated with both the number of zoonotic viruses (65.5% of deviance) and the viral richness (56.4% of deviance) of different reservoir orders" 2/n
"variation in the number of zoonoses maintained by each reservoir group was consistent with a largely host-neutral model, whereby more species-rich reservoir groups host more virus species and therefore a larger number of zoonotic species". 3/n
