Emergence of genomic diversity and recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2

L Van Dorp, M Acman, D Richard, LP Shaw… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
SARS-CoV-2 is a SARS-like coronavirus of likely zoonotic origin first identified in December
2019 in Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province. The virus has since spread globally …

Genomic diversity and hotspot mutations in 30,983 SARS-CoV-2 genomes: moving toward a universal vaccine for the “confined virus”?

T Alouane, M Laamarti, A Essabbar, M Hakmi… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has been ongoing since its onset in late November 2019 in
Wuhan, China. Understanding and monitoring the genetic evolution of the virus, its …

Mapping genome variation of SARS-CoV-2 worldwide highlights the impact of COVID-19 super-spreaders

A Gómez-Carballa, X Bello, J Pardo-Seco… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
The human pathogen severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is
responsible for the major pandemic of the twenty-first century. We analyzed more than 4700 …

[HTML][HTML] One year into the pandemic: Short-term evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of new lineages

F González-Candelas, MA Shaw, T Phan… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared on March 11 th, 2020. Since the very
beginning, the spread of the virus has been tracked nearly in real-time by worldwide …

Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and emergence of variants of concern

I Safari, E Elahi - Archives of virology, 2022 - Springer
The high transmission and mortality rates associated with SARS-CoV-2 have led to tragic
consequences worldwide. Large-scale whole-genome sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 …

Geographic and genomic distribution of SARS-CoV-2 mutations

D Mercatelli, FM Giorgi - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The novel respiratory disease COVID-19 has reached the status of worldwide pandemic and
large efforts are currently being undertaken in molecularly characterizing the virus causing it …

Mutational frequencies of SARS-CoV-2 genome during the beginning months of the outbreak in USA

N Kaushal, Y Gupta, M Goyal, SF Khaiboullina… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 has spread very quickly from its first reported case on 19 January 2020 in the
United Stated of America, leading WHO to declare pandemic by 11 March 2020. RNA …

An evolutionary portrait of the progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and its dominant offshoots in COVID-19 pandemic

S Kumar, Q Tao, S Weaver… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Global sequencing of genomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has continued to reveal new genetic variants that are the key to unraveling its early …

One year of SARS-CoV-2 evolution

A Wu, L Wang, HY Zhou, CY Ji, SZ Xia, Y Cao… - Cell Host & Microbe, 2021 - cell.com
Since the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, the etiologic agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, the viral
genome has acquired numerous mutations with the potential to increase transmission. One …

Large scale genomic analysis of 3067 SARS-CoV-2 genomes reveals a clonal geo-distribution and a rich genetic variations of hotspots mutations

M Laamarti, T Alouane, S Kartti, MW Chemao-Elfihri… - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
In late December 2019, an emerging viral infection COVID-19 was identified in Wuhan,
China, and became a global pandemic. Characterization of the genetic variants of SARS …