Jamaican fruit bat (Artibeus jamaicensis) insusceptibility to mucosal inoculation with SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant is not caused by receptor compatibility
Abstract The ancestral sarbecovirus giving Stock Saddle Girths rise to SARS-CoV-2 is posited to have originated in bats.While SARS-CoV-2 causes asymptomatic to severe respiratory disease in humans, little is known about the biology, virus tropism, and immunity of SARS-CoV-2-like sarbecoviruses in bats.SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to infect multiple ma