The uniqueness of bats / Paul A. Racey -- Viruses in bats : a historic review / Charles H. Calisher -- Bat lyssaviruses / Ivan V. Kuzmin and Charles E. Rupprecht -- Bat paramyxoviruses / Danielle E. Anderson and Glenn A. Marsh -- Bat coronaviruses / Xing-Yi Ge, Ben Hu, and Zheng-Li Shi -- Bat filoviruses / Gael Darren Maganga, Virginie Rougeron, Eric Maurice Leroy -- Bats and reverse transcribing RNA and DNA viruses / Gilda Tachedjian, Joshua A. Hayward, and Jie Cui -- Bat reoviruses / Claudia Kohl and Andreas Kurth -- Other bat-borne viruses / Krista Queen, Mang Shi, Larry J. Anderson, and Suxiang Tong -- Anthropogenic epidemics : the ecology of bat-borne viruses and our role in their emergence / Jonathan H. Epstein and Hume E. Field -- Are bats really "special" as viral reservoirs? : what we know and need to know / Kevin J. Olival, Cristin C. Weekley, and Peter Daszak -- Animal models of recently emerged bat-borne viruses / Jackie A. Pallister and Deborah J. Middleton -- Bat genomics / James W. Wynne and Mary Tachedjian -- Bat immunology / Michelle L. Baker and Peng Zhou