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Understanding patterns of variant emergence and spread in an ongoing epidemic

2026-03-30

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The COVID-19 pandemic saw successive emergence and global spread of novel viral variants, exhibiting enhanced transmissibility or evasion of immunity. While the genotypic and phenotypic basis of SARS-CoV-2 variants have been extensively characterized, the evolutionary factors governing their patterns of emergence are less well understood. In this study we systematically investigated how the invasion dynamics of vi...

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Literature Corpus work: 98a1bd98-4b7d-5c30-9799-923d934d6682
DOI: 10.64898/2026.03.27.26349560

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