Author: Tamás Görföl

ChiroVox – the largest open-access bat call library is now online! (and our article is in PeerJ)

Our article has just been published in PeerJ about the ChiroVox website! Recordings of bat echolocation and social calls are used for many research purposes from ecological studies to taxonomy. Effective use of these relies on identification of species from the recordings, but comparative recordings or detailed call descriptions to support identification are often lacking

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Grants and fellowships

Recently, many good news came to me regarding grant and fellowship applications. My proposal “Molecular evolution of bat-borne viruses and their hosts” got funding from the National Research, Development and Innovation Office. Bat-borne viruses became one of the leading topics in virus research after the SARS epidemic in the early 2000s. The COVID-19 pandemic further

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Our Lloviu virus paper available on bioRxiv

Filoviruses are prime examples of emerging human pathogens that are transmitted to humans by zoonotic spillover events. Since their initial discovery, filovirus outbreaks have occured with increasing frequency and intensity. There is an urgent need to better understand their enzootic ecology and pathogenic potential, given recent zoonotic virus spillover events including the 2013-2016 West African

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Small Myotinae bats from Himalaya uncovered

Our article on the revision of small-sized Myotinae bats from the Himalayas has been published in Mammalian Biology.The systematics status of the constituent species of the M. mystacinus morphogroup in the Himalayan region has long been marred by uncertainty. Lack of integrative studies combining morphological and genetic data from specimens recently collected in this region

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