Phylogenetic and phylodynamic approaches to understanding and combating the early SARS-CoV-2 pandemic

SW Attwood, SC Hill, DM Aanensen… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Determining the transmissibility, prevalence and patterns of movement of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections is central to our understanding …

Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in domestic cats imposes a narrow bottleneck

KM Braun, GK Moreno, PJ Halfmann… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The evolutionary mechanisms by which SARS-CoV-2 viruses adapt to mammalian hosts
and, potentially, undergo antigenic evolution depend on the ways genetic variation is …

[PDF][PDF] Mutation rates and selection on synonymous mutations in SARS-CoV-2

N De Maio, CR Walker, Y Turakhia… - Genome biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an unprecedented response from the sequencing
community. Leveraging the sequence data from more than 140,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes …

Mutational signatures and heterogeneous host response revealed via large-scale characterization of SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity

A Graudenzi, D Maspero, F Angaroni, R Piazza… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
To dissect the mechanisms underlying the inflation of variants in the Severe Acute
Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genome, we present a large-scale …

Controlling long-term SARS-CoV-2 infections can slow viral evolution and reduce the risk of treatment failure

D Van Egeren, A Novokhodko, M Stoddard, U Tran… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
The rapid emergence and expansion of novel SARS-CoV-2 variants threatens our ability to
achieve herd immunity for COVID-19. These novel SARS-CoV-2 variants often harbor …

SARS-CoV-2 genomic diversity and the implications for qRT-PCR diagnostics and transmission

N Sapoval, M Mahmoud, MD Jochum, Y Liu… - Genome …, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked an urgent need to uncover the underlying biology of
this devastating disease. Though RNA viruses mutate more rapidly than DNA viruses, there …

Perspectives: SARS-CoV-2 spike convergent evolution as a guide to explore adaptive advantage

J Zahradník, J Nunvar, G Schreiber - Frontiers in cellular and infection …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Viruses rapidly co-evolve with their hosts. The 9 million sequenced SARS-CoV-2 genomes
by March 2022 provide a detailed account of viral evolution, showing that all amino acids …

LACE: Inference of cancer evolution models from longitudinal single-cell sequencing data

D Ramazzotti, F Angaroni, D Maspero… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The rise of longitudinal single-cell sequencing experiments on patient-derived cell cultures,
xenografts and organoids is opening new opportunities to track cancer evolution, assess the …

Large-scale analysis of SARS-CoV-2 synonymous mutations reveals the adaptation to the human codon usage during the virus evolution

D Ramazzotti, F Angaroni, D Maspero, M Mauri… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Many large national and transnational studies have been dedicated to the analysis of
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) genome, most of which …

[HTML][HTML] The race to understand immunopathology in COVID-19: Perspectives on the impact of quantitative approaches to understand within-host interactions

S Gazeau, X Deng, HK Ooi, F Mostefai, J Hussin… - ImmunoInformatics, 2023 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the need for the increased integration of modelling
and data analysis to public health, experimental, and clinical studies. Throughout the first …