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 …

[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 …

Molecular evolution of SARS-CoV-2 during the COVID-19 pandemic

LD González-Vázquez, M Arenas - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) produced diverse
molecular variants during its recent expansion in humans that caused different …

[HTML][HTML] One year into the pandemic: Short-term evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of new lineages

F González-Candelas, MA Shaw, T Phan… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic was officially declared on March 11 th, 2020. Since the very
beginning, the spread of the virus has been tracked nearly in real-time by worldwide …

Evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 genome and emergence of variants of concern

I Safari, E Elahi - Archives of virology, 2022 - Springer
The high transmission and mortality rates associated with SARS-CoV-2 have led to tragic
consequences worldwide. Large-scale whole-genome sequencing of the SARS-CoV-2 …

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 …

Time series analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomes and correlations among highly prevalent mutations

N Periwal, SB Rathod, S Sarma, GS Johar… - Microbiology …, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
The efforts of the scientific community to tame the recent pandemic caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) seem to have been diluted by the …

The first three waves of the Covid-19 pandemic hint at a limited genetic repertoire for SARS-CoV-2

TM Wassenaar, V Wanchai, G Buzard… - FEMS Microbiology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The genomic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 is the result of a relatively low level of spontaneous
mutations introduced during viral replication. With millions of SARS-CoV-2 genome …

SARS-CoV-2: a new dimension to our understanding of coronaviruses

Y Araf, NA Faruqui, S Anwar, MJ Hosen - International Microbiology, 2021 - Springer
Coronaviruses have marked their significant emergence since the twenty-first century with
the outbreaks of three out of the seven existing human coronaviruses, including the severe …

Evolutionary trajectory of diverse SARS-CoV-2 variants at the beginning of COVID-19 outbreak

JX Lv, X Liu, YY Pei, ZG Song, X Chen, SJ Hu… - Virus …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Despite extensive scientific efforts directed toward the evolutionary trajectory of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in humans at the beginning of the COVID …