No evidence for distinct types in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2

OA MacLean, RJ Orton, JB Singer… - … Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
A recent study by Tang et al. claimed that two major types of severe acute respiratory
syndrome-coronavirus-2 (CoV-2) had evolved in the ongoing CoV disease-2019 pandemic and …

[HTML][HTML] The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
… generated, we contrast the evidence for the chronic infection … playing a role in SARS-CoV-2
evolution, and conclude that the … the possible future evolutionary trajectories of SARS-CoV-2. …

[HTML][HTML] On the origin and evolution of SARS-CoV-2

D Singh, SV Yi - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2021 - nature.com
… molecular evidence of the origin of SARS-CoV-2. We also discuss molecular evolutionary
insights … to the current pandemic, as well as the future evolutionary trajectories of SARS-CoV-2. …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2: tracing the origin, tracking the evolution

K Voskarides - BMC Medical Genomics, 2022 - Springer
… Studies found evidence that SARS-CoV-2 was around for many years before the pandemic
outbreak. Evidence has been published that the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 already had the …

On the origin and continuing evolution of SARS-CoV-2

X Tang, C Wu, X Li, Y Song, X Yao, X Wu… - National science …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
… genomes of SARS-CoV-2. This work provides new insights into evolution of SARS-CoV-2
and … report [33], we did not find evidence of recombination between the SARS-CoV-2 strains. …

[HTML][HTML] Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

C Wei, KJ Shan, W Wang, S Zhang, Q Huan… - Journal of genetics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
… into the evolutionary trajectory and proximal origins of Omicron through careful scrutiny of
its mutations and suggests strategies for avoiding future outbreaks caused by SARS-CoV-2 …

Evidence of significant natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats, not humans

OA MacLean, S Lytras, JB Singer… - COVID-19 …, 2020 - scholarshare.temple.edu
… to SARSCoV-2 evolution in humans. While methods can detect some evidence for positive
selection in SARS-CoV… Purifying selection is also substantially weaker in SARS-CoV-2 than in …

[HTML][HTML] No credible evidence supporting claims of the laboratory engineering of SARS-CoV-2

SL Liu, LJ Saif, SR Weiss, L Su - Emerging Microbes & Infections, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
… Combined with evolutionary evidence that the bat ACE2 gene has been positively
selected at the same contact sites as the human ACE2 gene for interacting with SARS CoV [Citation13]…

[HTML][HTML] Vitamin D and SARS-CoV-2 infection—evolution of evidence supporting clinical practice and policy development

DM McCartney, PM O'Shea, JL Faul, MJ Healy… - Irish Journal of Medical …, 2021 - Springer
… Suggestive background evidence Herein, we describe several emerging lines of evidence
… between vitamin D status and the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 infection and Covid-19 disease …

Evidence from the evolutionary analysis of nucleotide sequences for a recombinant history of SARS-CoV

MJ Stanhope, JR Brown, H Amrine-Madsen - … , Genetics and Evolution, 2004 - Elsevier
… Based on evolutionary analyses of coronavirus DNA … SARS-TOR2 genome, we provide
evidence that SARS-CoV has a recombinant history with lineages of types I and III coronavirus. …