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The Elusive Genesis: Stochasticity and the Challenge of Reconstructing Viral Origins

2025-06-02

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The emergence of novel viral pathogens, such as SARS-CoV-2, often ignites an urgent quest to pinpoint their precise origins and ancestral lineages. However, the very nature of viral evolution, deeply intertwined with stochastic processes, high mutation rates, genetic exchange, and vast, often unsampled, reservoirs, presents profound challenges to reconstructing deep evolutionary histories with pinpoint accuracy. T...

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10.20944/preprints202505.2277.v2
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