image: A Lasiurus bat. Members of this genus had among the highest rates of cross-species transmission in North American bats. This image relates to the work of Dr. Daniel Streicker, the 2013 Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists grand prize winner. Information on this prize appeared in the 6 December, 2013, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The grand prize-winning paper, by Daniel G. Streicker at University of Glasgow in Glasgow, UK, was titled, "From Persistence to Cross-Species Emergence of a Viral Zoonosis." view more
Credit: [Image courtesy of Daniel Streicker]