By Kevin E. Noonan — As the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted life throughout the world this spring, bats have been a prominent feature in news stories and recriminations about how the pandemic started (and being blamed even more than happenings in China, although to be fair the effects of the pandemic, good and bad, have been more the consequence of how countries and their citizens and their leaders have reacted to the virus than merely the virus itself). In view of the state of modern biology, it is not surprising that the bat genome is an interesting area of study,…
