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An Evolutionary Portrait of the Progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and Its Dominant Offshoots in COVID-19 Pandemic.
Molecular biology and evolution - 29 Jul 2021
Kumar Sudhir, Tao Qiqing, Weaver Steven, Sanderford Maxwell, Caraballo-Ortiz Marcos A, Sharma Sudip, Pond Sergei L K, Miura Sayaka
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Global sequencing of genomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has continued to reveal new genetic variants that are the key to unraveling its early evolutionary history and tracking its global spread over time. Here we present the heretofore cryptic mutational history and spatiotemporal dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 from an analysis of thousands of high-quality genomes. We report the...
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