Metagenomic analysis of bat viromes

Bats are described as natural hosts of a large variety of zoonotic viruses. With the application of sequence-independent PCR amplification, next-generation sequencing technology (Illumina/Solexa Genome Analyzer II) and sequence similar comparison, this study firstly described the bat viromes range from mammalian viruses, insect viruses, fungi viruses, plant viruses to phages in eleven common bat species of six provinces in China.