[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variant biology: immune escape, transmission and fitness

AM Carabelli, TP Peacock, LG Thorne… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
In late 2020, after circulating for almost a year in the human population, severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) exhibited a major step change in its …

Controlling mass and energy diffusion with metamaterials

F Yang, Z Zhang, L Xu, Z Liu, P Jin, P Zhuang… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Diffusion driven by temperature or concentration gradients is a fundamental mechanism of
energy and mass transport that inherently differs from wave propagation in both physical …

The Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan was the early epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic

M Worobey, JI Levy, L Malpica Serrano… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding how severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
emerged in 2019 is critical to preventing future zoonotic outbreaks before they become the …

The molecular epidemiology of multiple zoonotic origins of SARS-CoV-2

JE Pekar, A Magee, E Parker, N Moshiri, K Izhikevich… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Understanding the circumstances that lead to pandemics is important for their prevention.
We analyzed the genomic diversity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

Divergent SARS-CoV-2 variant emerges in white-tailed deer with deer-to-human transmission

B Pickering, O Lung, F Maguire, P Kruczkiewicz… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Wildlife reservoirs of broad-host-range viruses have the potential to enable evolution of viral
variants that can emerge to infect humans. In North America, there is phylogenomic …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer in the United States

A Feng, S Bevins, J Chandler, TJ DeLiberto… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus with documented bi-directional transmission between
people and animals. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to free-ranging white-tailed …

The origins and molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 lineage B. 1.1. 7 in the UK

V Hill, L Du Plessis, TP Peacock, D Aggarwal… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The first SARS-CoV-2 variant of concern (VOC) to be designated was lineage B. 1.1. 7, later
labelled by the World Health Organization as Alpha. Originating in early autumn but …

Selection analysis identifies clusters of unusual mutational changes in Omicron lineage BA. 1 that likely impact Spike function

DP Martin, S Lytras, AG Lucaci, W Maier… - Molecular biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Among the 30 nonsynonymous nucleotide substitutions in the Omicron S-gene are 13 that
have only rarely been seen in other SARS-CoV-2 sequences. These mutations cluster within …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to animals and potential host adaptation

CCS Tan, SD Lam, D Richard, CJ Owen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of the COVID-19 pandemic, can infect a wide
range of mammals. Since its spread in humans, secondary host jumps of SARS-CoV-2 from …

The emergence and evolution of SARS-CoV-2

EC Holmes - Annual review of virology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The origin of SARS-CoV-2 has evoked heated debate and strong accusations, yet
seemingly little resolution. I review the scientific evidence on the origin of SARS-CoV-2 and …