A selective sweep in the Spike gene has driven SARS-CoV-2 human adaptation

L Kang, G He, AK Sharp, X Wang, AM Brown… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
SARS-CoV-2 genomes, we demonstrate that positive selection, manifested as selective sweeps
in … likely played a critical role in the adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2. Within one of the …

Analysis of RNA sequences of 3636 SARS-CoV-2 collected from 55 countries reveals selective sweep of one virus type

NK Biswas, PP Majumder - Indian Journal of Medical Research, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… of SARS-CoV-2 types in every geographical region. This selective sweep was consistent with
a selective/… producing glycine directly provides a selective/transmission advantage for the …

Genome analysis of SARS-CoV-2 isolates from a population reveals the rapid selective sweep of a haplotype carrying many pre-existing and new mutations

MJ Bhattacharjee, A Bhattacharya, B Kashyap, MJ Taw… - Virology Journal, 2023 - Springer
… Here we have found that a haplotype of delta variant underwent complete selective sweep
in a population, we evokes the need to focus on haplotypes of SARS-CoV-2 variants for …

A possible role of remdesivir and plasma therapy in the selective sweep and emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants

P Colson, CA Devaux, JC Lagier, P Gautret… - Journal of clinical …, 2021 - mdpi.com
… , to systematically perform SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing … SARS-CoV-2 variants
could therefore have an epizoonotic … variants of the selective pressure exerted by anti-SARS-CoV-2 …

Selective sweeps in SARS-CoV-2 variant competition

L Boyle, S Hletko, J Huang, J Lee… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
… The main contribution of this paper is to show that the transition from one SARS-CoV-2
variant to the next is mathematically equivalent to a selective sweep, which follows the logistic …

Temporal data series of COVID-19 epidemics in the USA, Asia and Europe suggests a selective sweep of SARS-CoV-2 Spike D614G variant

TN Furuyama, F Antoneli, IMVG Carvalho… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
… To test whether this variant has epidemiological impact, the temporal distributions of the
SARS-CoV-2 … Our results suggest a selective sweep that can be explained, at least in part, by a …

Differential responses of SARS-CoV-2 variants to environmental drivers during their selective sweeps

TP Smith, S Mishra, I Dorigatti, MK Dixit, M Tristem… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 to climate, but the responses of specific variants during their selective sweeps,
… Overall, we have shown that climate can influence the selective sweeps of new SARS-CoV-…

Adaptive evolution of the spike gene of SARS coronavirus: changes in positively selected sites in different epidemic groups

CY Zhang, JF Wei, SH He - BMC microbiology, 2006 - Springer
… 03-human SARS-CoVs and strains from 02–04 interspecies epidemic group, which reveals
that selective sweep may also force the evolution of S genes before the jump of SARS-CoVs …

Identifying Potentially Beneficial Genetic Mutations Associated with Monophyletic Selective Sweep and a Proof-of-Concept Study with Viral Genetic Data

Y Furuse - Msystems, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
… syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) to determine whether known biologically significant
mutations and unrecognized mutations are associated with potential selective sweep

Population genomics insights into the recent evolution of SARS-CoV-2

M Vasilarou, N Alachiotis, J Garefalaki, A Beloukas… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
… Thus, a selective sweep analysis may still be meaningful for SARS-CoV-2. We performed
a selective sweep analysis for each separate population (Asia, Europe, North America, South …