Superspreading and variants of concern (VOC) of the human pathogen severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are the main catalyzers of the …

DNA barcoding has greatly accelerated the pace of specimen identification to the species
level, as well as species delineation. Whereas the application of DNA barcoding to the …

We elucidate grapevine evolution and domestication histories with 3525 cultivated and wild
accessions worldwide. In the Pleistocene, harsh climate drove the separation of wild grape …

The highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus clade 2.3. 4.4 b has caused the
death of millions of domestic birds and thousands of wild birds in the USA since January …

The SARS-CoV-2 epidemic started in late December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since
impacted a large portion of China and raised major global concern. Herein, we investigated …

Abstract Background The largest West African monkeypox outbreak began September 2017,
in Nigeria. Four individuals traveling from Nigeria to the United Kingdom (n= 2), Israel (n= 1) …

Despite numerous barriers to transmission, zoonoses are the major cause of emerging
infectious diseases in humans. Among these, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) …

INTRODUCTION We used genomic epidemiology to investigate the introduction and spread
of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in the Boston area …

Previous work found that the co-occurring mutations R203K/G204R on the SARS-CoV-2
nucleocapsid (N) protein are increasing in frequency among emerging variants of concern …

With a possible origin from bats, the alphacoronavirus Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus
(PEDV) causes significant hazards and widespread epidemics in the swine population …