Our understanding of the still unfolding severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) pandemic would have been extremely limited without the study of the …

The ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), has caused devastating impacts …

Understanding the circumstances that lead to pandemics is important for their prevention.
We analyzed the genomic diversity of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

Bats are reservoir hosts for many zoonotic viruses. Despite this, relatively little is known
about the diversity and abundance of viruses within individual bats, and hence 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 …

The sudden emergence and rapid spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) omicron variant has raised questions about its animal …

The pathogenic and cross-species transmission potential of SARS-CoV-2-related
coronaviruses (CoVs) remain poorly characterized. Here we recovered a wild-type pangolin …

Abstract SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19, emerged in December 2019. Its
origins remain uncertain. It has been reported that a number of the early human cases had a …

The bat coronaviruses (CoV) BANAL-20-52 and BANAL-20-236 are two newly identified
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) closely related …

Although Rhinolophus bats harbor diverse clade 3 sarbecoviruses, the structural
determinants of receptor tropism along with the antigenicity of their spike (S) glycoproteins …