The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused millions of
deaths and substantial morbidity worldwide. Intense scientific effort to understand the …

Developing therapeutic approaches for twenty-first-century emerging infectious viral diseases

RM Meganck, RS Baric - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
The twenty-first century has already recorded more than ten major epidemic or pandemic
virus emergence events, including the ongoing and devastating coronavirus disease 2019 …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A genomic perspective on the origin and emergence of SARS-CoV-2

YZ Zhang, EC Holmes - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
The ongoing pandemic of a new human coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has generated
enormous global concern. We and others in China were involved in the initial genome …

Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic

MF Boni, P Lemey, X Jiang, TTY Lam, BW Perry… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Improvements to the ARTIC multiplex PCR method for SARS-CoV-2 genome sequencing using nanopore

JR Tyson, P James, D Stoddart, N Sparks… - BioRxiv, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Genome sequencing has been widely deployed to study the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 with
more than 90,000 genome sequences uploaded to the GISAID database. We published a …

Cumulative SARS-CoV-2 mutations and corresponding changes in immunity in an immunocompromised patient indicate viral evolution within the host

ST Sonnleitner, M Prelog, S Sonnleitner… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Different scenarios explaining the emergence of novel variants of concern (VOC) of the
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been reported …

No evidence for increased transmissibility from recurrent mutations in SARS-CoV-2

L van Dorp, D Richard, CCS Tan, LP Shaw… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
COVID-19 is caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which jumped into the human
population in late 2019 from a currently uncharacterised animal reservoir. Due to this recent …

Virus detection: from state‐of‐the‐art laboratories to smartphone‐based point‐of‐care testing

M Xiao, F Tian, X Liu, Q Zhou, J Pan, Z Luo… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Infectious virus outbreaks pose a significant challenge to public healthcare systems. Early
and accurate virus diagnosis is critical to prevent the spread of the virus, especially when no …

Threats to global food security from emerging fungal and oomycete crop pathogens

HN Fones, DP Bebber, TM Chaloner, WT Kay… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
Emerging fungal and oomycete pathogens infect staple calorie crops and economically
important commodity crops, thereby posing a significant risk to global food security. Our …