Real-time monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 evolution during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Abstract excerpt

The global response to COVID-19 during the pandemic resulted in an unprecedented view of viral evolution. Here, we discuss both the capacity of the scientific community to monitor viral evolution on a global scale in real time and the mutational mechanisms and selective forces that shaped the evolution of SARS-CoV-2.

Topics

• COVID-19
• SARS-CoV-2
• Humans
• Evolution, Molecular
• Pandemics
• Mutation