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. 2021 Sep 7;12(5):e01941-21. doi: 10.1128/mBio.01941-21

FIG 2.

FIG 2

Distribution of bats from which retroviral sequences have been reported. Geographical regions hosting bat species with reported retroviral sequences are separated by color and labeled as follows: AC, Central Asia; AE, Eastern Asia; AN, Northern Asia; AS, Southern Asia; AU, Australia; AW, Western Asia; CA, Central Africa; CM, Central America; EA, Eastern Africa; EU, Europe; NA, Northern Africa; NM, Northern America and the Caribbean; SA, Southern Africa; SE, South East Asia; SM, Southern America; TA, Taiwan; WA, Western Africa. Regions in gray have not had reported bat retroviral sequences. A biogeographical boundary, the Wallace line, is indicated by the red dashed line. The hosts of two confirmed bat exogenous retroviruses (XRVs), the black flying fox (Pteropus alecto), and the big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus) are pictured. “Black Flying Fox - Pteropus Alecto” by Andrew Mercer available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black_Flying_Fox_-_Pteropus_alecto_-_(IMG_4883).jpg under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. “Big Brown Bat” by John MacGregor available at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Big_brown_bat_crawl.png under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0.