Article
Signatures of adaptive evolution during human to mink SARS CoV2 cross-species transmission inform estimates of the COVID19 pandemic timing
2021-09-16
Abstract excerpt
<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> One of the unique features of SARS-CoV-2 is that it mainly evolved neutrally or under purifying selection during the early pandemic. This contrasts with the preceding epidemics of the closely related SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV, both of which evolved adaptively. It is possible that the SARS-CoV-2 exhibits a unique or adaptive feature which deviates from other coronaviruses. Alternatively, the virus ma...
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- Literature Corpus work
- cd30e36d-6275-5f3b-9adb-892d57f2ac2f
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.09.15.459215
