The biological and clinical significance of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants

K Tao, PL Tzou, J Nouhin, RK Gupta… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The past several months have witnessed the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 variants with novel
spike protein mutations that are influencing the epidemiological and clinical aspects of the …

[HTML][HTML] COVID-19: The first documented coronavirus pandemic in history

YC Liu, RL Kuo, SR Shih - Biomedical journal, 2020 - Elsevier
The novel human coronavirus disease COVID-19 has become the fifth documented
pandemic since the 1918 flu pandemic. COVID-19 was first reported in Wuhan, China, and …

Ongoing global and regional adaptive evolution of SARS-CoV-2

ND Rochman, YI Wolf, G Faure… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the trends in severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-
2) evolution is paramount to control the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed more than …

Positive selection of ORF1ab, ORF3a, and ORF8 genes drives the early evolutionary trends of SARS-CoV-2 during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic

L Velazquez-Salinas, S Zarate, S Eberl… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we analyzed full-length SARS-CoV-2 genomes from multiple countries to
determine early trends in the evolutionary dynamics of the novel COVID-19 pandemic …

GESS: a database of global evaluation of SARS-CoV-2/hCoV-19 sequences

S Fang, K Li, J Shen, S Liu, J Liu, L Yang… - Nucleic acids …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The COVID-19 outbreak has become a global emergency since December 2019. Analysis of
SARS-CoV-2 sequences can uncover single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and corresponding …

An evolutionary portrait of the progenitor SARS-CoV-2 and its dominant offshoots in COVID-19 pandemic

S Kumar, Q Tao, S Weaver… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Global sequencing of genomes of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) has continued to reveal new genetic variants that are the key to unraveling its early …

The origin and early spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Europe

SA Nadeau, TG Vaughan, J Scire… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The investigation of migratory patterns during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic before spring
2020 border closures in Europe is a crucial first step toward an in-depth evaluation of border …

The global landscape of SARS-CoV-2 genomes, variants, and haplotypes in 2019nCoVR

S Song, L Ma, D Zou, D Tian, C Li, J Zhu… - Genomics …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract On January 22, 2020, China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB) released
the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Resource (2019nCoVR), an open-access information resource …

Mutational spectrum of SARS-CoV-2 during the global pandemic

K Yi, SY Kim, T Bleazard, T Kim, J Youk… - Experimental & molecular …, 2021 - nature.com
Viruses accumulate mutations under the influence of natural selection and host–virus
interactions. Through a systematic comparison of 351,525 full viral genome sequences …

Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) and coronavirus disease 19 (COVID‐19): Are they similar?

S Paltrinieri, A Giordano, A Stranieri… - Transboundary and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
SARS‐CoV‐2 has radically changed our lives causing hundreds of thousands of victims
worldwide and influencing our lifestyle and habits. Feline infectious peritonitis (FIP) is a …