Several coronaviruses infect humans, with three, including the SARS-CoV2, causing
diseases. While coronaviruses are especially prone to induce pandemics, we know little …

Coronaviruses cause respiratory and digestive diseases in vertebrates. The recent
pandemic, caused by the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus 2, is …

In the past two decades, three coronaviruses with ancestral origins in bats have emerged
and caused widespread outbreaks in humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome …

Bats are presumed reservoirs of diverse coronaviruses (CoVs) including progenitors of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)-CoV and SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of …

RNA viruses are proficient at switching host species, and evolving adaptations to exploit the
new host's cells efficiently. Surprisingly, SARS-CoV-2 has apparently required no significant …

Seven zoonoses—human infections of animal origin—have emerged from the
Coronaviridae family in the past century, including three viruses responsible for significant …

The current Covid-19 pandemic emphasizes the dramatic consequences of emerging
zoonotic pathogens and stimulates the need for an assessment of the evolution and natural …

Coronaviruses (CoVs) have been documented in almost every species of bat sampled. Bat
CoVs exhibit both extensive genetic diversity and a broad geographic range, indicative of a …

The rapid dissemination of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV−
2) has opened up an environmental dilemma—investigating the relationship between the …

The lack of an identifiable intermediate host species for the proximal animal ancestor of
SARS-CoV-2, and the large geographical distance between Wuhan and where the closest …