@article{Boni_M-2020_8728,
title = {Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic},
author = {Boni, M. and Lemey, P. and Jiang, X. and Lam, T. and Perry, B. and Castoe, T. and Rambaut, A. and Robertson, D.},
month = {nov},
year = {2020},
abstract = {There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of recombination and its time of divergence from animal viruses. We find that the sarbecoviruses—the viral subgenus containing SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2—undergo frequent recombination and exhibit spatially structured genetic diversity on a regional scale in China.},
pages = {1408-1417},
volume = {5},
issue = {11},
journal = {Nature Microbiology},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0771-4},
}
