TY - JOUR
AU - Boni, Maciej F.
AU - Lemey, Philippe
AU - Jiang, Xiaowei
AU - Lam, Tommy Tsan-Yuk
AU - Perry, Blair W.
AU - Castoe, Todd A.
AU - Rambaut, Andrew
AU - Robertson, David L.
PY - 2020
DA - November
TI - Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic
JO - Nature Microbiology
EP - 1417
VL - 5
IS - 11
DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41564-020-0771-4
AB - 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.
PB - Springer Nature
UR - http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/224744/
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
ER