Reminder: this level of analysis of pathogen evolution (here, in animal hosts as well as humans) has never been possible before in the history of pandemics! "we find that the closest-inferred bat virus ancestors of SARS-CoV & SARS-CoV-2 existed less than a decade prior to their emergence in humans."
@spyroslytras.bsky.socialSooo happy to finally have this one published!! (3 years in the making… 👀) A comprehensive investigation into the recency and geographical origins of both SARS-CoVs that spilled to humans in the past few decades, now in @cp-cell.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like
and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat
coronaviruses that circulated as...
