4. Material and Methods<br>4.1 Sample Collection<br>The protocol for capturing and sampling of bats in the present study was approved by the<br>Chung Yuan Christian University Animal Care and Use committee (approval number 103008)<br>and agriculture bureau of regional government. The captured bats were put into cotton bags<br>individually and allowed to produce fecal pellets for the collection in 500 μL of RNAlater®<br>RNA stabilization solution (Qiagen, Germantown, MD, USA). Blood samples were taken by<br>heparin (30 U/μL)-rinsed tips from the wing veins nicked by 26G needles. No more than 5%<br>of total blood volume of individual bat (1/20 of body weight) was collected for their survival<br>(Voigt CC and Cruz-neto A, 2009).<br>4.2 RNA Extraction<br>Viral RNA was extracted from the fecal pellets in RNAlater® solution by using QIAamp<br>Viral RNA kit (Qiagen). In brief, 140 μL of the supernatant of the RNAlater® solution with<br>fecal samples after the centrifugation at 5000 rpm for 20 minutes was added to 560 μL of<br>AVL buffer containing 5.6 μL of carrier RNA in AVE buffer. The mixture was incubated at<br>room temperature for 10 minutes and then added 560 μL of 96-100% ethanol. Next, 630 μL<br>of solution was applied to the QIAamp column in a 2-mL collection tube and centrifuged at<br>8000 rpm for 1 minute. The filtrate was discarded and the QIAamp column was washed by<br>AW1 and AW2 buffers. Finally, viral RNA was eluted from the QIAamp column in 60 μL of<br>AVE buffer after the centrifugation at 8000 rpm for 1 minute.<br>4.3 Reverse Transcription<br>The extracted RNA was reverse transcribed to cDNA by using iScript Select DNA Synthesis<br>kit (Bio-Rad, Hercules, CA, USA) containing the mixture of random primers and oligo dT<br>primers according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Briefly, the 20 μL-reaction comprising<br>13 μL of viral RNA, 4 μL of 5 x iScript reaction buffer, 2 μL of random and oligo dT primers, <br>6<br>and 1 μL of iScript reverse transcriptase was incubated at 25 oC for 5 minutes, 42 oC for 30<br>minutes, 85 oC for 5 minutes and then stopped at 4 oC.
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