Phylogenetic network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes

P Forster, L Forster, C Renfrew… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
In a phylogenetic network analysis of 160 complete human severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) genomes, we find three central variants …

Sampling bias and incorrect rooting make phylogenetic network tracing of SARS-COV-2 infections unreliable

C Mavian, SK Pond, S Marini… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
There is obvious interest in gaining insights into the epidemiology and evolution of the virus
that has recently emerged in humans as the cause of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID …

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 …

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 …

A dynamic nomenclature proposal for SARS-CoV-2 lineages to assist genomic epidemiology

A Rambaut, EC Holmes, Á O'Toole, V Hill… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The ongoing pandemic spread of a new human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, which is
associated with severe pneumonia/disease (COVID-19), has resulted in the generation of …

Analysis of genomic distributions of SARS-CoV-2 reveals a dominant strain type with strong allelic associations

HC Yang, CH Chen, JH Wang… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the causal agent of COVID
19, continues to evolve since its first emergence in December 2019. Using the complete …

Median-joining network analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes is neither phylogenetic nor evolutionary

SJ Sánchez-Pacheco, S Kong… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Tracking the spread of pandemics and the evolution of the underlying pathogens are
effective tools for managing deadly outbreaks. Forster et al.(1) use a median-joining (MJ) …

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 …

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 …

Conserved genomic terminals of SARS-CoV-2 as coevolving functional elements and potential therapeutic targets

AP Chan, Y Choi, NJ Schork - MSphere, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has infected over 40
million people worldwide, with over 1 million deaths as of October 2020 and with multiple …