SARS-CoV-2 one year on: evidence for ongoing viral adaptation

TP Peacock, R Penrice-Randal… - Journal of General …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
SARS-CoV-2 is thought to have originated in the human population from a zoonotic spillover
event. Infection in humans results in a variety of outcomes ranging from asymptomatic cases …

[HTML][HTML] SARS-CoV-2 variants evolved during the early stage of the pandemic and effects of mutations on adaptation in Wuhan populations

A Awadasseid, Y Wu, Y Tanaka… - International journal of …, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The pandemic apparently started in …

SARS‐CoV‐2 biology and variants: anticipation of viral evolution and what needs to be done

R Luo, A Delaunay‐Moisan, K Timmis… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The global propagation of SARS‐CoV‐2 and the detection of a large number of variants,
some of which have replaced the original clade to become dominant, underscores the fact …

The evolution of SARS-CoV-2

PV Markov, M Ghafari, M Beer, K Lythgoe… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused millions of
deaths and substantial morbidity worldwide. Intense scientific effort to understand the …

Emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants: genetic variability and clinical implications

A Dubey, S Choudhary, P Kumar, S Tomar - Current microbiology, 2022 - Springer
The sudden rise in COVID-19 cases in 2020 and the incessant emergence of fast-spreading
variants have created an alarming situation worldwide. Besides the continuous …

The emerging plasticity of SARS-CoV-2

KD McCormick, JL Jacobs, JW Mellors - Science, 2021 - science.org
Viruses evolve as a result of mutation (misincorporations, insertions or deletions, and
recombination) and natural selection for favorable traits such as more efficient viral …

Evolutionary trajectory of SARS-CoV-2 and emerging variants

J Singh, P Pandit, AG McArthur, A Banerjee… - Virology journal, 2021 - Springer
The emergence of a novel coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2), and more recently, the independent evolution of multiple SARS-CoV-2 …

Evolutionary tracking of SARS-CoV-2 genetic variants highlights an intricate balance of stabilizing and destabilizing mutations

JJ Jacob, K Vasudevan, AK Pragasam, K Gunasekaran… - MBio, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The currently ongoing COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has accounted for
millions of infections and deaths across the globe. Genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 are …

SARS-CoV-2 mutations: the biological trackway towards viral fitness

P Majumdar, S Niyogi - Epidemiology & Infection, 2021 - cambridge.org
The outbreak of pneumonia-like respiratory disorder at China and its rapid transmission
world-wide resulted in public health emergency, which brought lineage B betacoronaviridae …

Emerging genetic diversity among clinical isolates of SARS-CoV-2: Lessons for today

JA Sheikh, J Singh, H Singh, S Jamal… - Infection, genetics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
Considering the current pandemic of COVID-19, it is imperative to gauge the role of
molecular divergence in SARS-CoV-2 with time, due to clinical and epidemiological …