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Genetic drift of human coronavirus OC43 spike gene during adaptive evolution.
Scientific reports - 22 Jun 2015
Ren Lili, Zhang Yue, Li Jianguo, Xiao Yan, Zhang Jing, Wang Ying, Chen Lan, Paranhos-Baccalà Gláucia, Wang Jianwei
Abstract excerpt
Coronaviruses (CoVs) continuously threaten human health. However, to date, the evolutionary mechanisms that govern CoV strain persistence in human populations have not been fully understood. In this study, we characterized the evolution of the major antigen-spike (S) gene in the most prevalent human coronavirus (HCoV) OC43 using phylogenetic and phylodynamic analysis. Among the five known HCoV-OC43 genotypes (A...
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